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THE HIGH COUNSELOR WITHIN 



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FROM EXISTENCE TO LIFE 

ILLUMINATION 

INSPIRATION 

THE WAY 

A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

HEALING — THE INVOLUNTARY WAY 




The Author 



Mind's Silent Partner 

THE HIGH COUNSELOR WITHIN 



BY 



JAMES PORTER MILLS, M.D. 




NEW YORK 

EDWARD J. CLODE 

1922 



COPYRIGHT, 1922, 

BY 

JAMES PORTER MILLS 



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THE SHRINE OF TEUTH 

If thou could 'st see with thine eyes, Man, if thou 

could 'st hear with thine ears 
Truth as She is in very truth, and not as to sense appears, 
Could 'st sever the Substance from the sign, and learn to 

perceive and know 
She is not throned in the heavens above, nor housed in 

the earth below ; 
Could 'st thou with thine own heart's key unlock the 

Kingdom that is Within, 
There face to face with thy Maker stand, and fear no 

shadow of sin, 
But see thyself as indeed thou art — for all that He hath 

is thine — 
Very breath of His very breath, body and soul divine ; 
Then every thought were a waft of wings uplifting from 

death to Life, 
With infinite beauty, endless rapture, uttermost glory 

rife, 
And 'een on the barren crag thou'ldst cry, or in hut 

with roof -tree riven, 

"This is none other than the House of God, and this is 

the Gate of Heaven.' ' 

James Rboades. 



MIND, THE INSTRUMENT OF 
SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS 

The mind is the expansion of the Instinctive faculty 
into offices in the brain for the purpose of delivering 
Creative-Knowledge from the Creative Source to the 
self -consciousness. 

It is also the instrument which relates man to his en- 
vironment through the senses. 

Mind action is also called into activity inspired in- 
ductively through the senses. 

James Porter Mills. 



JAMES PORTER MILLS 

In introducing this important book to the 
public the biographical facts which follow — 
solicited to meet the natural interest of readers 
in its author, — will be useful to them in show- 
ing something of the experiences and mental 
processes leading up to his teaching and its 
further expression in this work. Dr. Mills 
came of spiritually minded parents. His fa- 
ther was a clergyman and he himself a member 
of a church, — a connection never formally sev- 
ered. 

As a youth he was strongly attracted to the 
physician's calling. To prepare himself thor- 
oughly for his chosen profession he studied 
both schools of medicine, and added to these 
a course in electrical therapeutics. After re- 
ceiving degrees both from Chicago and Phila- 
delphia medical colleges, he opened an office in 
the Marshall Field Building, Chicago. Dur- 
ing his twenty years of practice there he was 
for eight years physician to the Foundling's 
Home, lectured to medical students on physi- 

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Viil JAMES PORTER MILLS 

ology, and was occupied with medical editorial 
work. 

It may be incidentally mentioned here that 
following upon these varied and prolonged 
activities, conditions developed from which 
he found no relief from the most noted Ameri- 
can and European specialists. He was finally, 
for three months, in the care of Professor 
Sigmund Freud, in Vienna. As his European 
experience gave him no permanent benefit he 
decided to return to Chicago and take up his 
practice again, hoping to work out of his con- 
dition as best he might. But he became worse. 

At this time a friend, a physician, intro- 
duced him to a prominent teacher of spiritual 
psychology. This teaching was very helpful. 
Later he learned of another more spiritual 
form of metaphysical teaching, from which 
he derived far greater benefit. Both were use- 
ful. 

The story of his development during this 
period can best be told in Dr. Mills' own words, 
by the following quotation from the opening 
chapters of From Existence to Life: 

"So much knowledge of the body, and of 
disease, seemed to keep me ever conscious of 
it, for according to the teaching of that time 
the body was matter, and matter did not exist ; 



JAMES PORTER MILLS IX 

it was a delusion of the senses and therefore to 
be denied. But after a time I began more 
fully to realize what a marvel of creation was 
the body; what an object-lesson of intelligence 
and of wisdom its construction; what a palp- 
able epitome of the various principles which 
we are taught in the schools under the name of 
science. I gradually perceived that the science 
of man, the mental being, could but agree with 
the science of the bodily organization through 
which it was operating; that the Life, the 
mind, and the body, constitute a trinity which 
should be in scientific unity with each other/ ' 
From now on his progress was rapid, and 
his cure became complete. This proved to be 
the turning point in his career. Though, in 
conjunction with the new teaching, he had con- 
tinued the practice of his profession ever since 
his return from Vienna — his malady fortun- 
ately not being apparent to others — he finally 
realized that he had found a power trans- 
cendently beyond medicine. He then aban- 
doned all medicine and external means of deal- 
ing with sickness. Having demonstrated the 
power of the new teaching to be far greater 
without the medical element than when asso- 
ciated with it, he keenly desired to free him- 
self from his old methods. Accordingly he 



X JAMES PORTER MILLS 

gave up his practice in Chicago, and sailed 
with his wife for Sydney, Australia, where 
they devoted themselves entirely to spiritual 
teaching and healing. 

In the course of time the conviction ripened 
in him that the use of affirmations and denials 
was merely a psychology, and that the state- 
ments commonly used were not only at vari- 
ance with the findings of ordinary science, but 
also that some of them, at least, tended to stul- 
tification of character. Moreover, the neces- 
sity for constantly reiterating these statements 
through the years, had developed a fear of do- 
ing without them. Upon realizing this he de- 
termined to discontinue the use of affirmations 
and denials for a week, — a most difficult ordeal 
for one who had become so dependent upon 
that form of psychology. This week of ab- 
stinence, however, brought to birth a new order 
of meditation, establishing the basis on which 
this regenerating science was founded and has 
continued to grow. This is both an involun- 
tary means of healing and a system of spiritual 
illumination. Thus he was led on from psy- 
chology to pneumatology, the science of spirit- 
ual development. 

After three years in the capitals of Austra- 
lia, Dr. and Mrs. Mills visited India. Here 



JAMES PORTER MILLS XI 

they came in touch with Vivekananda, who 
had formerly been a guest for two months in 
their Chicago home. At Vivekananda 's re- 
quest, in his monastery near Calcutta, Dr. 
Mills gave a course of lectures, which was 
eagerly received by Vivekananda 's disciples. 
In India he also met the celebrated Mohini M. 
Chatterji, translator of the Bhagavad Gita, 
who acted as interpreter between Dr. Mills 
and a notable Guru to whom he gave the sub- 
stance of his teaching. 

Further travels brought them finally to Eng- 
land. Here for nearly a year they taught and 
practiced with much success in London. Then 
followed a short visit to Australia on their way 
to California where they intended to make a 
permanent home. But after an interesting 
experience there of two years' teaching and 
practice, so earnest an appeal came from stu- 
dents in London, for them to return and con- 
tinue their work, that they finally did so. 

The work took such deep root that the pro- 
posed visit of a few months resulted in a stay 
of thirteen years, with occasional summers 
spent in their own country. A most fruitful 
work has been established in London, at 
44 South Molton Street, Mayfair, which they 
visit yearly, while still having their permanent 



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home in New York at 200 West 57th Street, 
where they conduct classes and meetings. 

An important feature of Dr. Mills' teaching 
is that it does not require blind belief, the ac- 
ceptance of a formal creed, or an asceticism 
demanding the renunciation of normal, enter- 
taining and wholesome pleasures. 

A quotation from the preface to EXIST- 
ENCE TO LIFE gives a hint of the teaching, 
although an adequate idea of this new science 
cannot, obviously, be given in so few words. 

" It is a science for all-round use, health be- 
ing but one of the modes of the Principle of 
All Knowledge; and so far as man is con- 
cerned, the science of self-consciousness, for- 
mulated correctly, and made use of intel- 
ligently, should satisfy the mind and comfort 
the heart in all the emergencies of life. 

"This science may be treated strictly as a 
science, and all the religious momenclature 
may be eliminated by substituting scientific 
for personal terms of Being. Set forth in 
religious terms as well, it becomes ideal, and 
satisfies the religious nature ; but set forth in 
scientific terms only, and practiced, the same 
results will obtain in mind and heart for those 
who have not been able to accept the doctrines 
of religion, as for those to whom religion 
makes its heartfelt appeal." 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Lo, I Am with you alway, even unto the end of the 

world 11 

That I may grow more and more conscious of Thee, 

my Creative Spirit within 18 

I will arise and go to my Father 27 

Thou, my Creative Spirit, art supreme within me. . 36 
Thou, my Indwelling Christ, Word of God, art my 
Creative Spirit of Love, the Omniscient, Self- 
controling Omnipotence of my mind within . 42 

I AM 55 

Inspiration of the Knowledge-Spirit within me, . . 72 
Faith in the Omnipotent Life within me ... 79 
Trusting in Thee, my Heavenly Father within, I 
have nothing to fear, every good thing to ex- 
pect 84 

Let Thy Will be my will; a well-spring of Omnis- 
cience, springing forth into everlasting, eternal 

Life within me 90 

Let the Infinite Spirit within me come forth . . 94 
Faith in the Omniscient Goodness within me . . 107 
That my self -consciousness may be of the Principle 

of my existence 115 

Ask, and ye shall receive; seek, and ye shall find; 

knock, and it shall be opened unto you . . . 120 
That I may know the Spirit of Health, in my self- 
conscious Life, from Its Source in Thee, my 

Christ within 127 

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PAGE 

"Divine Expectancy " 129 

Let the Spirit of Eternal Self-Consciousness within 

me come forth 134 

I Am Spirit . . 149 

Infinite Spirit within me 161 

Infinite Spirit within me 172 

Peace, be Still 176 

That I may be made every whit whole in my feeling 

nature, and in my form 187 

That I may grow more and more conscious of the 

Creative Spirit within me 193 

That I may know the Infinite Spirit within me . 200 

How there are no poisons 205 

That I may know the Infinite Goodness within me . 210 
0, Thou Divine Subjective Man, Instinct with Om- 
niscience within, reveal Thine Omniscient 
Spirit to Thy self-conscious creation, that I 
may enter now while on earth into my birth- 
right of Divine Life, Health, and Wisdom . 217 
That I may know the Spirit of Truth within me . 222 

"The Oversoul " 224 

That I may know the Spirit of Truth within me . 233 

The First Dimension of Matter 241 

The Over-Soul, leading up to a talk on the fourth 
dimension of matter — which is really the first 

dimension 

The Fourth Dimension of Matter 

A Subsequent talk on the Fourth-Dimension . 

That I may know the Infinite Spirit within me . . 266 

That I may know the Omniscient Goodness within 

me 281 

Thou my Indwelling Christ art Love Supreme 

within me . • t* k • • •■ ...... 296 



MIND'S SILENT PARTNER, 
THE HIGH COUNSELOR WITHIN 



PROLOGUE 

In order to forestall any possible prejudice 
in reading what is herein set forth, let me say 
that while we have been accustomed to speak 
of Omniscience and Christ in the personal and 
sensuous terms of God and Jesus, I am not the 
least aggressive or unsympathetic when I use 
their mental and scientific equivalents in the 
language of to-day, namely, " Principle' ' for 
Omniscience, " Instinctive Man" for the Sub- 
jectivity of Christ in self -consciousness. 
Principle means FIRST of all Knowledge, 
Omniscience; Principle is Substance-Knowl- 
edge. Principle is already acknowledged as 
Substance-Knowledge for man's use in the 
world of objects. It is herein acknowledged 
as Substance-Knowledge on which to found a 
self -consciousness that shall illuminate, feed, 

and satisfy the mind. This means that con- 

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sciousness shall be founded upon the rock of 
Knowing, rather than upon the sand of ignor- 
ance of the Omniscience. 

This book is frankly a series of class-talks, 
wherein, besides developing each meditation, 
every talk has necessarily been adapted to the 
changing personnel of classes and has 
presented some general idea of the teaching. 
I retain this colloquial form because of its 
greater spontaneity, and also because I have 
found by experience in dealing with abstract 
Truth, especially with widely differing men- 
talities, that frequent repetition of ideas in 
the same and varying forms is necessary to 
make clear teaching which is fundamentally 
abstract. I have therefore not attempted to 
follow literary usage but rather practical 
methods, and let the talks stand as they were 
given. 

MIND'S SILENT PARTNER, like my 
other books, is intended for regular compan- 
ionship and use rather than mere reading and 
entertainment. Thus used it will yield ever 
more and more of its illuminating and healing 
spirit; since, while the mind may quickly 
grasp the surface meaning of the words and be 



MIND'S silent partner 3 

entertained by them, usually it is slow to enter 
into the deep, the all absorbing, creative feel- 
ing they stand for. Moreover, it is hoped that 
all readers will be inspired to practice medi- 
tation regularly, at least from five to fifteen 
minutes, twice daily ; oftener is better. Their 
reward is sure. 

It may be useful to add here a quotation 
from my book FROM EXISTENCE TO 
LIFE, giving a glimpse of my own personal 
introduction to the general subject: 

"In the year 1886 I became acquainted with 
one form of metaphysical teaching, and in 
1887 with another. Both presented different 
aspects of the same truth ; each had a method 
formulated for the practice of healing, and for 
defence against disease. These methods were 
in harmony with each other, and I practiced 
them both for my own advancement in health, 
and for the awakening of the new and true 
ideas of life in me, which the teaching set 
forth. My medical education seemed at first 
to be a great stumbling block, a barrier against 
my getting on, an ever-present denial of my 
feeling-nature of the underlying Truth that I 
perceived in the teaching, which, in spite 



4 mind's silent partner 

of this and other barriers, was helping me 
greatly to overcome my most vivid state of 
chronic illness, that happily was not apparent 
to others, and did not prevent the practice of 
my profession." 

"My knowledge of the cerebro-spinal and 
sympathetic systems of nerves, with their re- 
lation to each other, began in 1890 to develop 
into a perception of their mental and spiritual 
correspondence. A little later I was teaching 
in Chicago that the sympathetic system was 
the Life-system of nerves, and that life, work- 
ing through it, represented and functioned the 
Principle of creation and maintenance; in a 
word, that through it the primary construc- 
tive science, relating to the man, takes place, 
in regard both to mental and bodily com- 
merce/ ' 

To quote from From Existence to Life 
again: "My particular teaching has not only 
to do with spiritual psychology but also with 
pneumatology, — the science of spiritual self- 
consciousness, which, unlike material psychol- 
ogy, does not take its rise in the inductive 
premises of experiment.' ' 

For the convenience of readers, some defini- 



mind's silent partner 5 

tions of terms used in this and my other books 
are given here. Though their meaning will 
come out progressively in the reading, these 
may profitably be referred to from time to 
time. 

Consciousness is of several orders, original 
and acquired. 

Original Consciousness may be defined as 
Original Feeling or Emotional Substance,— 
Deity. Equivalent terms are Spirit, Creative 
Spirit, Omniscience, Principle of Omniscience 
Man-Principle and so forth. 

Acquired Consciousness is exemplified by 
the words, soul, psyche, soul-emotion, feeling, 
self-consciousness. 

Other terms for soul are the subjectivity of 
self-consciousness or self-consciousness in a 
subjective state, sub-consciousness, conscious- 
ness below the threshold of cognition. 

Self -consciousness means mental awareness. 
In scholastic definition it is an attribute of 
mind, a state of mind wherein one is able to 
reason, judge and come to conclusions accord- 
ing to facts, and so to be aware of one's ego. 
It means consciousness of one's self, or ego as 
the subject, the cause of the object of thought, 



6 mind's silent partner 

— the non-ego. Thus, even in grammar, the 
subject of a sentence is causal ; without it there 
can be no sentence ; it is the is-ness of the sen- 
tence. It means here that out of which either 
visible objects or ideal states are born. 

Consciousness Yet to Be Acquired is Divine 
Self-Consciousness, Christ Consciousness, 
Knowledge of the One Omniscient Spirit. 
The mind is yet to be born into a knowledge 
of the Kingdom of Omniscience, to know itself 
as being of Divine Substance. 

Subjectivity. The term Subjective is never 
used here as meaning illusory or imaginary. 
Objective refers both to idea and its embodi- 
ment in the elements, — both mental and physi- 
cal object. 

Subjective Man, in the human, material 
sense, is the predisposing cause of mind, soul 
and body. It signifies the subjective, instinc- 
tive intelligence which has created the organ- 
ism for self -consciousness in terms of objective 
life, — a sort of automatic functioning. 

Subjective Man in the Divine sense, signi- 
fies the Indwelling Christ, the Heavenly 
Father to the mind which It has produced and 



mind's silent partner 7 

officed out of and by means of the Man-Prin- 
ciple which It inhabits. 

Instinctive Man, instinct with Man-Princi- 
ple or Omniscience, constitutes the " Kingdom 
of God Within." The term " Instinct with 
Man-Principle/' is used here to express spir- 
itual, as distinguished from animal or soul 
instinct. 

Indwelling Christ, the Mediator between 
Omniscience Within and the Mind, is Instinc- 
tive Man, the Way or Route, from Man-Prin- 
ciple to Mind-Consciousness. 

Subjectivity, in the human sense, means 
soul, the subjectivity of human self -conscious- 
ness. Soul is the recorded inheritance each 
mind possesses of human race-emotion and 
sensation, plus self-experience. This record 
constitutes the library of the brain. 

Subjectivity, in the Divine sense, the Great 
Subjectivity, is God, Man-Principle, Divine 
Emotional Substance, Life, Omniscience. 

The Subjectivity of Divine Manhood is 
man's Pneuma, is the man- Spirit in distinc- 
tion from man-soul. The subjective state of 
spiritual self-consciousness, with Man-Princi- 



8 mind's silent partner 

pie functioning through the mind, interpreting 
soul-life in terms of spiritual knowledge, 
would constitute Regenerate Man, Christ, Un- 
limited Man, manifesting all the attributes of 
God, or Omniscience, in Self-conscious Life. 

Christ is the likeness of MannPrinciple or 
God, extended also into terms of self-con- 
sciousness, — Ultimated Man; the Ego or Self 
being in and of Principle, the consciousness 
being a development from the Ego. 

The Christ Consciousness, is the key to the 
interpreting of personal existence and the vis- 
ible or objective universe. 

Over-Soul. The soul of the objective uni- 
verse. All that was left over when man rose 
up from the earth, clothed with the "dust of 
the ground" by the Lord God, "his Divine 
Nature." 

Mind is a complex spiritual mechanism of 
at least nine faculties, developed from Man- 
Principle through the one faculty of Divine 
Instinct. They are perception, imagination, 
reason, judgment, memory, abstraction, aes- 
thetic taste, will and intuition. 

Mind primarily functions Life, or Spirit. 



mind's silent partner 9 

It secondarily functions, through the adjuncts 
of sense, soul or human, experience. 

Psychology is the science of soul-making, 
soul activity and soul culture. 

To psychologize means to make one's self or 
another believe what is contrary to the evi- 
dence of facts or feeling through sophistical 
argument or hypnotic suggestion. The use of 
terms of religion does not change the nature 
of this process, but does disguise it, though 
this may be and often is quite unintentional. 

Pneumatology is the science of awakening 
and developing Divine or Spiritual conscious- 
ness. 



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LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAY, EVEN 
XJNTO THE END OF THE WORLD " 



The first Chapter of Genesis deals with 
perfect man in the likeness of God. The 
second Chapter deals with the creation of man 
made from the dust of the ground, — a poetical 
form of expression. The Lord God made 
man out of the dust of the ground, that is, the 
desire for self-consciousness brought him 
forth. 

Man, Generic Man, the likeness of Principle, 
ever remains in the entirety of that Substance. 
Out of Generic Man comes the Individual 
Manhood, in answer to the impulse in Generic 
Man — His Christ Principle. It is the Instinc- 
tive Generic urge for Individual expression 
that forms man of the dust of the ground. 

The preliminary stage of his ultimate 
arrival into a consciousness of Divine Man- 
hood, and his exploits in that stage, are por- 
trayed in the Old Testament, from his setting 

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forth out of the land of Egypt to his arrival 
at the threshold of the land of Canaan, from 
the Stygian darkness of the mind to Divine 
Illumination of it. 

According to the Old Testament man 
became a living soul when he was made of the 
dust of the ground, and soul is but a stage of 
his evolution into Divine self-consciousness. 
He was Man before he was ever formed in 
the elements. The Inherent-desire of Instinc- 
tive Man is led towards self-consciousness, and 
the first step was to produce an organism to 
that end. Subjective Man was therefore the 
creator of the body through which Man be- 
came individualized. Since it was Man who 
created this personal form in order ulti- 
mately to get his education into Divine self- 
consciousness his first step was to be born into 
a transitional kingdom of sense. 

Jesus distinctly taught of an "I" that could 
do all things. He spoke also of another order 
of "I", evidently the personal, when He said: 
" I of myself can do nothing. ' ' Personal man 
of himself can do nothing unless he dwell with 
the Father — his Life, through the mind. 

The same "I am" as that of Jesus, the like- 



LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAY 13 

ness of Man-Principle is the inheritance of 
every mind. The "I" belongs to the King- 
dom within: "Lo, I am with you always." 
Man made Instinctive use of the Principle of 
existence to create his organism. The likeness 
of the Creator within is endowed with the 
potentiality of creating a means answering to 
the urge that is within him to fulfill the 
destiny of that urge. The mind with its 
attending adjuncts of body was the result of 
the use of his power to create. 

The relative, personal "I" should pass 
away, item by item, from day to day, that 
the "I" within, that is Life to the mind, may 
take its place in personal presentment. 
"Without Me, this 'I,' ye can do nothing." 

It would seem strange that the people in the 
time of Jesus could not receive more direct 
teaching. We do not realize that Truth can 
only be accepted according to one's degree of 
evolution. We make no doubt that the Master 
was able to express His meaning with 
perfect directness but His experience re- 
corded in the sixth Chapter of John, when 
"many went away," undoubtedly governed 
His mode of expression afterwards. It has 



14 mind's silent partner 

taken two-thousand years to evolve a vital 
understanding of His Teaching. 

The Spirit of Life maintains the mind and 
body It has created for a given time, but 
during that time man should learn to co- 
operate with the Spirit and make use of his 
endowments. There is That within us to 
meet all requirements throughout the ages. 
Time and space become of no account since the 
Great Spirit remains with us. 

Our meditation is a good one for bringing a 
vital consciousness into the mind. "Lo, I am 
with you alway." With the mind fully 
charged, the attendant Man-Life always with 
it, let us listen to words that express what 
this wonderful Manhood Within may do for 
Its Creation, when called upon to act. 

"Thou wilt cleanse my feeling nature of all 
sadness, condemnation, resentment and regret, 
and of all dependence upon any other than 
Thee, O Most High within me. Thou wilt 
feed my mind with Living Knowledge straight 
from Thine own Omniscent Substance, and 
wilt enable me in my personality to express 
my Divine Inheritance of Health, Wisdom 
and Love." 



LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAY 15 

The time to use this meditation is when one 
has fallen into a negative state of emotion. 
The spirit of the words will cleanse the feeling 
nature and hope and normality will begin to 
come from them. %t is well to be cleansed 
whilst suffering from untoward states ; we are 
then able to realise the Power related to the 
organism that responds to the call of Its child. 

Some order of emotion may come up, bring- 
ing temporary relief, but nothing excepting 
the Great Spirit can cleanse the mind so that 
it may never fall again. How can the Spirit 
do this ? Through the inducing power of our 
daily meditations for the development of 
consciousness of Divine Manhood within. 
Just so far as the light of Knowledge is 
brought into the mind, so far will the desired 
cleansing come, and the tendency to fall again 
into ignorant states will diminish. There is 
not the same temptation to enter upon old 
paths of feeling, when the darkness by which 
that feeling was engendered is dissolved in 
light. This form of teaching creates a ten- 
dency to outgrow the voluntary indulgence in 
harmful emotions. This is the experience of 
those who practise regular meditation. The 



16 mind's silent partner 

same conditions that, in one's earlier career, 
would have called out condemnation and re- 
sentment are used as an opportunity to call 
out the Spirit of Knowledge. 

"Thou wilt cleanse my feeling-nature of all 
condemnation." 

It is good ultimately, not to depend on any- 
one but to enjoy all. Divine Manhood, 
developing within us, gradually makes us 
independent of those about us but does not 
remove us from them in our sympathies. Our 
sympathy, is, however, no longer with their 
possible negative conditions. It is rather with 
That within which will heal them. 

One cannot live in the world without having 
some influence over others either for weal or 
for woe. One's states of consciousness to a 
greater or less degree affect environment. Let 
us remember to use meditation in times of 
need, and so experience how it calls out Divine 
movements for good. Every time the mind is 
applied to its great Subjectivity through the 
words of meditation, undesirable conditions 
tend to die away, mere selfish emotions 
impinge less and less on the mind's attention. 

Those who are conscious of possessing in 



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their nature condemnation and like negative 
feelings, will do well to have periods of medi- 
tation for development and thus endeavour to 
carry out the best of what is presented to them 
from Within. 
Let us take an all positive meditation : 
"O Christ, Omniscient within me, give me 
Knowledge, Knowledge of Thyself, of Thy 
Spirit, in relation to my living day by day. 
Feed my mind with Living Knowledge, feed 
my heart with Living Love from Thine own 
Omniscient Love-Substance within." 

The mind is cleansed of its relative igno- 
rance or sin, not by any arbitrary act of grace 
or pardon of our Creator, but by the incoming 
of the Very Spirit of Knowledge — Life Itself. 



18 mind's silent partner 

"that i may grow more and more 
conscious of the creative spirit 

WITHIN " 

"Say not lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, 
the kingdom of God is within you." 

This is as plain and unequivocal a statement 
as the Master ever made, yet it has taken some 
centuries for that stupendous announcement 
of Truth to strike home. It was a startling 
pronouncement to be made in those days. 
People in general, however, do not realize it 
now any more than they did at the time it was 
spoken. The time has arrived when the 
Master's great words can be understood and 
acted upon. 

What is God that He can be within us ? We 
have known nothing within our bodily limits 
that answers to any idea of God. We have to 
go to the Scriptures to find what God is. God 
is Spirit, Life, Goodness, Substance, Truth, 
Righteousness, Wisdom, Faith, Health, Love, 
Omniscience, Omnipresence, First. All these 



THE CREATIVE SPIRIT WITHIN 19 

are embraced in one term, Principle; they 
are all mental terms and constitute what we 
are to know in knowing God. We are in- 
structed, " Acquaint now thyself with God and 
be at Peace.' ' We need to become acquainted 
with this our Great Subjective-Within, our 
Inheritance, the Almighty Man-Principle. 
The Master said, "To know God is Eternal 
Life." This would be nothing but a taunt 
were this Kingdom of Omniscience not to be 
known here on earth where it was proclaimed. 

A thousand years ago it might have been 
said by some seer that a new country would 
be discovered and called America ; a land to be 
known and utilized, but that many years were 
to pass, many miles were to be travelled, before 
the discovery would be made. So it is with 
the Kingdom Within. The announcement 
was made. The years have passed. The 
Kingdom is now disclosed to the mind. It 
is the Manhood-Principle of Omiscience. 
"Whosoever hath ears to hear let him hear." 

There is another "within" commonly called 
the soul. That kingdom gives no startling 
evidence of God. It is a kingdom wherein a 
fictitious happiness and a great variety of 



20 mind's silent partner 

trouble are experienced through the medium 
of the senses. 

The Great Eealm Within is the Kingdom of 
God, to be brought into terms of self -conscious- 
ness. We are equipped to bring this Knowl- 
edge-Kingdom into the mind, to be expressed 
in mental life and in bodily presentment. 

The Master spoke from His personal 
experience when He said, "I and the Father 
are one," evidently meaning, "I and my 
Creator are one," that is, "I am the Voice of 
my Creator." 

We cannot say these words with His exper- 
ience, but we may repeat them often enough 
to call out the inspiration and the spiritual 
significance embodied in them. 

"I and My Creator are one." 

The mind has been brought forth to 
represent the Spirit of Knowledge in the 
world. It is a creation born directly out of 
Principle. ] It has not been born into objective 
terms, but it is a self evident fact that it exists, 
since, first, its offices have been discovered, and 
secondly, because each faculty can be put out 
of commission by disturbing its functioning 
area in the brain. Thus it bears the same 



THE CREATIVE SPIRIT WITHIN 21 

relation to its Origin as it did when it was first 
founded, and is therefore in a position to pro- 
duce Knowledge from its Source as well as to 
serve the relative self-consciousness of sense. 
Indeed the first step towards attaining this 
ultimate end is the mind's awakening into 
a temporary order of consciousness by means 
of the mechanism of sense. This the race 
has apparently considered to be the only order 
possible to obtain in this life. The further 
stage of development is the bringing of the 
Eesources of our Knowledge-Principle into 
the mind to enlighten also the kingdom of 
sense. 

In our meditation the "I" is the Man-En- 
tity, the Christ within. The mind is the door 
by which the Christ enters into consciousness. 
The mind must elect to induce the coming of 
Christ. The body exists adjunctive 'to the 
mind, as the means or office by which the mind 
carries on its affairs. The mind, as we know 
it in its complexity, was created and officed 
during the process of gestation of the body be- 
fore birth, and all the necessary provisions 
made for it to fulfill its office of self -conscious- 
ness. Man up to the present age has been 



22 mind's silent partner 

bringing to re-birth ancestral experience pos- 
sessed in bis soul life, and adding thereto his 
own personal exploits- His mind has been 
functioning from its secondary within of soul 
to its without of sense. From this without of 
sense man is continually adding to his soul 
store. The door opening back into its Source 
has remained undiscovered, though the Master 
told of it and gave the key to it. 

In the original Greek, mind and life are 
coupled together, likewise body and soul, soul 
being the means of bodily expression, chaper- 
oned by life and mind. 

"For of the soul, the body form doth take, 
For soul is form, and doth the body make." 

The Spirit of Knowledge within is the 
mainspring of all movements taking place in 
spiritual consciousness, the mind is the 
inducing agency. This is the fundamental 
purpose for which the mind exists, though the 
beginnings are made in the "moon" darkness 
of sense. 

Having acquired sense consciousness with 
the experience of incessant failure along that 
line, ad libitum, the time is come when the 
mind should build upon another basis, for its 



THE CREATIVE SPIRIT WITHIN 23 

own salvation from experiences of "sin, sick- 
ness, sorrow and death. " The basis to build 
upon is the Kingdom of Knowledge Within, 
which, when known, wiH constitute the Saviour 
of the race. 

"My Creator and I are one." 

There is That Within which creates and 
maintains us while we sleep. It is the Instinc- 
tive Knowledge of God. God, Christ, mind, 
self-consciousness, are mental, not soul, terms. 
With the Principle of Man, the mind and all 
the equipment contained in the Trinity of 
Principle, we may get transcendental Knowl- 
edge, the kind which is drawn upon un- 
consciously by intuitional musicians, mathe- 
maticians and others similarly gifted. It is 
having to acquire knowledge by the "moon- 
light" of the intellect, by the Adam process, 
that makes our movements uncertain. Our 
use of the term "transcendental Knowledge" 
applies first to the Knowledge of the Manhood 
Principle as it relates to present vitality and 
eternal Life existence; secondly, to its intui- 
tional equivalent for use in the affairs of our 
environment. 

"My Creator and I are one." By medita- 



24 mind's silent paetner 

tion we do not mean to concentrate or think. 
We mean rather a silent holding by the mind 
of the words that are to give mental access 
to the creative Kingdom Within. The mind 
has the power to connect with Instinctive Man- 
hood within, the incipiency of Christhood to 
come. Meditation, then, is not concerned 
primarily with the personal consciousness. 
It is the naked mind which is commissioned, 
through the words of the meditation, to bring 
forth the Great Spirit into activity in the 
mental realm. Repeat the words often enough 
to keep the mind engaged with them. Hold 
the mind to the idea while the spirit in the 
words is brought forth in terms of cell-record 
in the brain. Something transpires each time 
the words are held ; a conviction grows of the 
Truth that will inspire to further practice. 
Spiritual conviction becomes lodged in brain- 
cells just as soul records are formed. 

To repeat, the meditation leaves out person- 
ality. Usually we are absorbed with experi- 
ences of personal life, soul-life, emotions, 
thoughts and sensations. Yet as we grow into 
a Knowledge of the Spirit, whatever activities 
are inspired from that Knowledge, will be ex- 



THE CREATIVE SPIRIT WITHIN 25 

pressed in our personal life. We have been in 
Stygian darkness concerning this realm of the 
Creative Spirit. Even the mere perception of 
It is wonderful, to say nothing of the Knowl- 
edge of It. Imagine the knowing of Life! 

Certain chemical substances are generated 
in nature and we have the power to find 
formulae that enable us to produce them in the 
laboratory. The potential knowledge which 
makes it possible for these formulae to be 
discovered, forever remains in man's Crea- 
tive Kingdom within, where it has always 
been. 

Life is of the mind, not of the body. In- 
stinctive Life uses chemical elements to carry 
out purposes of Its self-conscious offices, and 
to support offices of which we are not con- 
scious. Processes are being carried on by 
the Creative Spirit in us all the time for our 
continuance. It is our Life at this moment, 
that must be born into the mind, through con- 
tact with the pure Subjectivity. 

Pure Subjectivity is Omniscience led into 
action by Instinctive Man. Being subject to 
the call of the mind, It is the servant of the 
mind. It is the author of the mind, and is its 



26 mind's silent partner 

maintenance. There is, self-evidently, con- 
tinuous connection between Principle and 
mind on the involuntary side of existence. 
The purpose of meditation is to extend this 
connection to the conscious offices of the mind. 

All language comes up from the Creative 
Spirit. It is a very significant fact that the 
languages of all peoples are scientific. The 
Instinctive Power within brought forth lan- 
guage to meet necessities, for nothing can ap- 
pear in self -consciousness that does not take 
its rise from Within. By the same language 
given us from Within, we are in turn calling 
forth the Spirit of the Creator, who gave it to 
that very end. 

"That I may grow more and more conscious 
of the Creative Spirit within." 

We desire to know consciously what is 
known in the Creative Realm within, and to 
be able to bring that Knowledge into personal 
life. Then we shall move wisely in the activi- 
ties of our environment. 

Our meditation calls out answering activity 
of Instinctive Manhood within, to the end of 
making a conscious connection between our 
minds and our Creative Principle. 



I WILL ARISE AND GO TO MY FATHER 27 

If one were ill, the meditation would call 
forth Eighteousness that heals the organisa- 
tion which Creative Principle has founded. 
This is true spiritual healing and we are not 
required to give any personal accentuation to 
it, any push of the will. 

"That I may grow more and more conscious 
of the Creative Spirit, my Christ, my Heavenly 
Father, my Divine Instinctive Manhood 
within." 



u 



I WILL ARISE AND GO TO MY FATHER' f 



The overcoming of all difficulties lies with 
the mind, which has an immutable Principle 
to which it can turn for a solution of any prob- 
lem, for all problems are really mental, though 
they may appear in terms of sense. 

The mind can deliver its Principle in terms 
of sense by picturing It out in such a way as 
to represent what the mind, through the senses, 
can understand. In this way human inven- 
tions come forth. 'They arise in the mind, are 
translated into lines and angles, and then into 



28 mind's silent partner 

terms of the elements. Fundamentally all 
creation is of the mind. 

That is the reason why we have this medita- 
tion, "I will arise and go to my Father/ 9 and 
are trying to bring out its mental significance 
without twisting the words of the Scriptures, 
in which metaphors, parables and similies are 
meant to illustrate mental situations. 

One does not take a far journey simply from 
the physical point of view. The body, indeed, 
is taken on the journey, but it is the mind that 
takes it. Although this is a mental situation, 
the mind must go through the circuitous route 
of sense to carry out its intents at a given 
place, though the transaction could take place 
equally well from the mind alone, without re- 
gard to space if the mind knew the Father, 
the Knowledge- Spirit lying at the back of the 
mind. Were this Knowledge- Spirit in the 
self -consciousness, all the transactions of sense 
life could take place anywhere in the universe, 
regardless of the location of the human per- 
sonality, because mind, lighted by Principle, 
is above the limitations of sense. 

In interpreting a parable one does not need 
to follow the letter of it, but should look rather 



I WILL ARISE AND GO TO MY FATHER 29 

to see its intent and idea. In due time, as 
mind in tlie spirit of Truth proceeds, the real 
spiritual interpretation is revealed. 

Let the mind then, arise out of its present 
personal consciousness. "I will arise and go 
to my Father. " All the emotional life thus 
far stored up in the record of self-conscious- 
ness has been accumulated from sense-stand- 
ards, and is connected with the personal world. 
That term ' personal world,' conveys just the 
right meaning, namely, that it is not the real 
world but the "mask" world, persona meaning 
"a mask. " The whole of life, is covered, so to 
speak, by a mask. The real individual in any- 
one is hidden. Little is known of what is in 
the mind of another; words do not always 
express it. 

The personality is not the reality. The 
whole organism came forth out of the great 
Silence to become the office of the mind. The 
mind is the gist of it all, the senses being ap- 
pendages of the mind. 

Let us arise in our meditation, from the per- 
sonal realm that the meaning of the words 
may be revealed to us ultimately in terms of 
feeling. By this means we shall be able to 



30 mind's silent partner 



judge of troublesome situations according to 
" righteous judgment' ' and "not according to 
appearance," thus coming to a solution of our 
difficulties. The naked mind, rises above the 
store of personal feeling it has accumulated 
for itself, and is speaking thus in our medita- 
tion: 

"I will arise and go to my Father. I will 
arise into the realm above personal life, into 
the Creative Realm that made personal life 
possible ; I will commune, through the channels 
It has provided to that end, with the Creative 
Spirit within me. I will arise into the state 
of one-ness with my great Resource. I will 
turn with desire to the Spirit within by which 
my mind was created, — body, senses, soul, all 
being adjunctive to the mind. I will arise 
and go to my Father, my Heavenly Father 
Within." 

There is a similarity between our state and 
that of the son in the parable. In the first 
place the son did not know his father at all. 
He had lived with him and been supported by 
him, but his mind had been too much occupied 
with his pleasures to know him. We do not 
know our Father. Not until we fall into diffi- 



I WILL ARISE AND GO TO MY FATHER 31 

culties, as the prodigal did, do we seek the 
Father Within. We go afar off by ourselves 
and spend our emotional life in riotous living 
until, finding ourselves in difficulties, we seek 
the Father; we arise mentally and desire of 
Him. 

Notice the state in which this son started 
back to his father, that of humility. He had 
discovered his own worthlessness apart from 
his father. He went back that he might ask 
for and, so, induce his father's favor, not com- 
mand it. He had gone away in the demanding 
spirit, "Give me my portion.' * But coming 
back, he was like the publican, who, not even 
lifting up his eyes, smote upon his breast say- 
ing, "Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner.' ' He 
felt he could no longer stay in the state of 
consciousness he was in, but must have some- 
thing creative to rest upon. He therefore 
made preparation to start back to the Creative 
Power. Thus, too, when we are ready, must 
we arise as he did. We do not arise in space. 
We arise from a relation of the mind with the 
soul, into a relation with our Heavenly Father, 
the Source of every good gift. The mind has 
become discouraged with its present # condi- 



32 mind's silent partner 

tions, and now it is humble; it seeks. It 
frankly owns that in its present state it can do 
nothing, that unless it gets aid from its Father 
it is entirely undone. 

The state of humility is a relaxed, receptive 
state. Real humility is not a Uriah Heep role, 
but is a state of receptivity in which the mind 
may arise and blessing flow in. The immedi- 
ate necessities of the moment are met ; a feel- 
ing of peace begins to pervade the mind. A 
beginning is made, but the journey is a long 
one, though there is provision, even bounty, 
on the way, out of which one may be fed both 
mentally and materially. 

It is commonly felt to be unnecessary in the 
first years of life to know the great Spirit of 
Knowledge, the Father dwelling Within. One 
must needs have a term of experience leading 
to a point when the Creative Spirit must be 
known, or the penalty of ignorance be paid. 

The mind was created for a far greater pur- 
pose than to be a servant of sense ; though it 
assumes that lowly office for a probationary 
period. It has soul-feeling for its first order 
of consciousness, holding traffic with one hemi- 
sphere of its creative Principle in the function- 



I WILL ARISE AND GO TO MY FATHER 33 

ing of that order. The other Hemisphere, its 
most vital necessity, remains in abeyance 
through this period. But the time comes in 
man's evolution when the mind must realise 
conscious connection with the other Hemi- 
sphere, wherein is vested its continuity of life. 
To be sure, the mind has had dealings with 
this Creative Realm, but through a depart- 
ment of its organisation of which it is uncon- 
scious. Since the Master's Teaching of the 
relation of Life to the mind has disclosed this 
other Hemisphere, and the way of procedure 
has been formulated from indications He gave, 
— through abiding in the words, — the time is 
now come for those who are able to receive His 
Teaching, not apprehended in His day, to do 
as He said. 

To be sure, for a few years one can remain 
in ignorance of the Most High Within, and 
live so long as the mind in its involuntary 
capacity draws upon the Creative Power suffi- 
ciently for the maintenance of sense-life; but 
the time comes when it must arise and seek the 
great Spirit of Life. The offices of the mind 
can be located, but the mind cannot be found 
any more than God can be found, through 



34 mind's silent partner 

physical research. Yet mind is the reality, for 
the service of which the whole psychical and 
physical organisation was called forth, to be- 
come a habitation and instrument for its activi- 
ties. Nothing can be done towards continuing 
the self-consciousness of the mind and its 
offices without taking steps towards knowing 
the Creator, the Father dwelling Within. God 
is Truth. "To know God is Eternal Life." 
Did not the Master teach the way? Was it 
through death, or through abiding in His 
words? "I of myself can do nothing." The 
mind apart from the Creative Spirit Within, 
can do nothing. The Father Within, doeth 
all things at my desire. It is that Spirit 
Within which created me and which is con- 
tinuing to create my consciousness for me at 
my desire, day by day. This is the Creative 
Knowledge-Spirit by which all the experiences 
of my life were made possible, portrayed in 
terms of emotion, and embodied in the library 
of memory, to be recalled at my desire. 

I 4 am arising out of this library of feeling 
which I have called consciousness, with a 
desire to know that Feeling hitherto unrecog- 
nised by me, namely, the Spirit of the Father 



I WILL ARISE AND GO TO MY FATHER 35 

dwelling in the pure Subjectivity of His King- 
dom within me. 

"I acknowledge Thee, my Creative Spirit 
within, as the Author of my existence, my 
Eternal Life within me. I would learn of 
Thee to live ; I would enter into my Birthright 
from Thee as consciously as I have entered 
into my birthright on the human side of exist- 
ence. I would enter Thy Kingdom wherein is 
all Power, all Goodness, all potentiality of 
enduring Life, enduring Health, enduring 
Self-control, enduring Love. I would know 
the Spirit of all Knowledge, by which worlds 
were framed, by means of which human beings 
come forth with all the potentiality of entering 
into the Divine Spirit of Knowledge, the gift 
of God. I would accept this gift in my self- 
consciousness. I would live day by day in 
conscious touch with Thee. I would honour 
Thee, my great Life-Giver, by entering into 
the Way of knowing Thee, that the mind Thou 
hast given me, and the self-consciousness 
Thou hast created at my ignorant desire, while 
I knew not of Thee within, may be filled with 
the righteousness of Thy Love." 



36 mind's silent partner 

thou, my creative spirit, art 
supreme within me 

The mind is not only capable of handling 
Principle in relation to its environment, but 
also in its own interior issue of life, of knowl- 
edge, health and spiritual development. 

The Source of mind is Man ; the Source of 
Man is God. Creation mental and physical 
taking place at our desire, robs Principle of 
nothing. That which we create is created 
mentally and is a likeness of Principle in terms 
of mind and sense. 

All the knowledge of man is vested in his 
mental origin, and, though clothed with 
the elements, he does not individually begin 
to exist until the office of his mind is estab- 
lished. 

One already existing in this consciousness is 
able to watch the processes of creation of other 
members of the race. He can see that there is 
a Power, Knowledge, Wisdom that ante-dates 
self-conscious existence. 

Man-Knowledge is Within to the Man- 
Mind. The mind's Spirit of Life is vested be- 



THOU, MY CREATIVE SPIRIT 37 

fore birth, as after birth, in the Creative 
Power within. 

The primary state of Man in his activity is 
Instinct with Omniscience. That Instinct of 
Principle blossoms into the faculties of the 
mind and their offices in the brain. Yet these 
faculties do not leave Principle any more than 
houses, when built, leave the mind or leave 
their origin in the principle of architecture. 
The Reality still inhabits Principle as it did 
before Its likeness was brought forth into 
terms of objective life. That which we see is 
a symbol suggesting to us that the thing basic- 
ally exists in Principle. 

The race man has hitherto called forth the 
likeness of Principle into terms of mind and 
sense for use in his environment. He has 
failed, however, to invoke it for the develop- 
ment and continuance of his mental life, in 
order that it might be as deathless and stable 
as Principle Itself. We need this knowledge 
of the Omniscience in order to live ; without it 
we do not live — we exist. 

The first step towards knowing is to believe 
in the holy Trinity of Principle as our Omnis- 
cient Source, our Divine emotional Substance, 



38 mind's silent partner 

the earnest of perennial-conscious existence. 
Do not be deceived by the limited language we 
have to use, and do not imagine that the per- 
sonal "I" speaks in these words of Truth; 
As St. Paul said: "It is not I who speak, but 
Christ dwelling in me." The messages of 
Spirit are delivered through the medium of the 
mind. If the subject be that of transcenden- 
tal Knowledge, it is the Spirit of God speak- 
ing, through the medium of personality. The 
mind is able to lend itself to whatsoever realm 
it may desire to function from at the moment. 

Nothing is created except it is of the mind 
first. The mind is the supreme agent of the 
Divine Emotional Eealm which it must contact 
through desire in order that creative activity 
may begin and proceed. During meditation 
we enter into such state of unity with the Most 
High that It may do the works of Its Creative 
Power in terms both of cell-life in the brain, 
and knowledge-life in the mind. 

"Thou, my Creative Spirit, art supreme 
within me." Emotions are created by stimu- 
lating activities taking place in the world of 
sense, and reciprocally emotions stimulate such 
activities. By these emotions we know that we 



THOU, MY CREATIVE SPIRIT 39 

live. Our meditation calls forth Knowledge- 
Emotion that shall constitute for us an item 
in the masonry of our Eternal consciousness 
of Life, of the Omniscience within, each medi- 
tation increasing our ever growing conscious- 
ness. This great Creative Knowledge will be 
converted into terms of illluminating feeling. 

Principle is the fundamental order of 
emotion, of which the mind is a counterpart, 
and from it the mind took its rise. Principle 
is the pure Subjectivity of Omniscient Man- 
hood within, subject to the behests of the 
mind. 

By our meditation a cell-record of inspira- 
tional Knowledge is being formed, as it is thus 
evoked from its Source. To know the fulness 
of Spirit conveyed in all words of Life, to real- 
ize their full emotional significance, would be 
Eternal Life. It therefore behooves us to 
become more familiar with our Great Within. 
This wonderful world we see has no existence 
to the individual except as he sees it, yet 
activities of mind in its instinctive office 
produced it all before it was expressed in 
sense. The mind is Life's agent for creation. 
It has the power to know intuitionally the in- 



40 mind's silent partner 

voluntary realm of the Creative Spirit, the 
indwelling Christ. 

Let us then partake of the living bread of 
Life, which is knowledge of the Manhood 
Principle. Turn the mind right back to its 
mental Source. Repeat the words of medita- 
tion so that the mind in its Subjective office 
may brood over them and incarnate their 
Spirit in the offices of the mind. 

"Thou, my Creative Spirit, art Supreme 
within me. 

"I would be taught of Thee, would learn of 
Thee, would be born into Thy Spirit. Eeign 
Thou Supreme in my self-consciousness as 
Thou dost in the pure Subjectivity of Thy 
Kingdom within. 

"In the Spirit of my Life, my Christ, my 
Manhood within, there is no limitation. There 
is Infinite Knowledge-Love, Knowledge-Life, 
Knowledge-Health, and all that Life, Health 
and Knowledge mean to the health of my con- 
sciousness. 

"I acknowledge Thee, O Life Omniscient 
Within me, as my Life, my Health, my Ruling 
Power, my Spirit of Knowledge within; and 
I call upon Thee now, to make good through 



THOU, MY CREATIVE SPIRIT 41 

all the avenues of my consciousness that 
wherein I have blundered. While I am com- 
ing to know Thee let me be healed through my 
belief in Thee, of that whereof Thou knowest. 

"In the Spirit of my Life, my Christ, my 
Divine Manhood within, there is no limita- 
tion. Let the Spirit of Life within me come 
forth into my self -consciousness ; let the Will 
of the Spirit of my Divine Life within me be 
made manifest while I am coming to know 
Thee. 

"As I follow the Word that Thou hast given 
me, pointing the way to know, let the King- 
dom of Knowledge within me come, let the 
Will of the Holy Spirit of Knowledge within 
me be done in my self -consciousness as It is in 
the pure Subjectivity of Thy Kingdom 
Within.' ' 



42 mind's silent partner 



THOU, MY INDWELLING CHRIST, WORD OF 

GOD, ART MY CREATIVE SPIRIT OF LOVE, 

AND THE OMNISCIENT, SELF-CONTROLLING 

OMNIPOTENCE OF MY MIND WITHIN 

Every living thing has a spirit or idea be- 
hind it, by which it is brought into being and 
gradually evolved according to its kind. Now 
just as the spirit or idea of the butterfly ap- 
pears first in the form of a chrysalis through 
which it makes its debut as a butterfly, so think 
of the Spirit of Instinctive Man, as creating 
his chrysalis body, with its mental and sustain- 
ing offices, by means of which he shall enter 
into self-consciousness as a chrysalis first, to 
come forth finally as an ultimated man on the 
self-conscious side of existence, clothed with 
the personality and in the likeness of the Di- 
vine Man within. With this idea in the mind, 
turn your mind back from the sense-world to 
its Source in Spirit, the Source where the 
Spirit of Man enters upon its first operations 
leading up to an ultimated Christ in person- 
ality. 

"Thou, my indwelling Christ, Word of God, 



THOU, MY INDWELLING CHRIST 43 

art my Creative Spirit of Love, and the Omnis- 
cient Self-controlling Omnipotence of my 
mind within.' ' While thus engaged, the mind 
is looking back upon its Origin in Instinctive 
Manhood, instinct with the Omniscient Spirit, 
acknowledging the Love by which it was 
brought into existence, and by which it is being 
sustained. 

This meditation acknowledges that man is 
not body, but that he has that Spirit within, by 
which the bodily presentment has been pro- 
duced, that he has the Spirit and Intent of the 
Indwelling Principle by which we are now liv- 
ing and should continue to live in self-con- 
scious life. When we speak of Him as Christ 
Indwelling or as Divine Subjective Man, we 
mean the active Spirit of Principle in distinc- 
tion from the stable Spirit of Principle. 
Whatever man is destined to become in self- 
consciousness hereafter, is latent to-day in his 
Within. We are not so much interested in 
latencies of soul-manhood, by which we are 
helplessly borne on to final surrender, as we 
are in the latencies of Divine Manhood out of 
which is to come "All dominion, " — through 
being at one with the great Principle of Knowl- 



44 mind's silent partner 

edge. This oneness is established by virtue of 
the fact that we are able to call the Man Princi- 
ple into action, in all Its modes. We have now 
the great opportunity to develop these poten- 
tialities and to know the Spirit of Manhood 
within which has, unrecognized by us, brought 
us thus far on our way. 

"Come now forth, Thou Living Word, and 
light the offices of the mind, which Thou hast 
founded in the earth-elements, with Thy Spirit 
of Eternal Life and Infinite Knowledge-Love. " 
"Come now forth.' ' It is the desire that this 
living Word may come forth, that is inducing 
the Life or Principle Within to bring It forth ; 
that is the law. Shall this desire, the fulfil- 
ment of which is so important to us, be any less 
likely to call out that latent Spirit within, 
than the desire of the architect to call forth out 
of his principle the likeness of principle that 
the house in the elements represents? 

We have a house not made with hands. It 
is the residence of the mind. This house of the 
mind is being fashioned day by day in the 
objective likeness of that which is being con- 
ceived. Is there sadness within? Then you 
can see it in the face. Whatsoever spirit is 



THOU, MY INDWELLING CHRIST 45 

obtaining, whatsoever ideas have been allowed 
to develop into their emotional states, these 
show forth their results on the physical plane. 
There is a law that, as a man thinketh in his 
heart, so is he; so is his physical expression, 
his personality ; so it is to him, be he right or 
wrong in his interpretation of things ; it is to 
him as he thinks and feels, because a wedding 
has taken place between his desire image and 
the emotion that belongs to it on the subjective 
side of existence. 

We know that we have inherited Life, and 
that we are not living consciously in our In- 
heritance at the present time, because we are 
living in the sense emotions. We have not as 
yet the fruition of our Inheritance ; we are in 
a state of becoming and have not yet arrived 
at the stage where we can enjoy Life. 
We enjoy gambolling on the green of the earth ; 
we enjoy each other — sometimes! We enjoy 
the things around us. [We call it life, but, sad 
to confess, the time has come when the race 
must acknowledge that living the objective life 
of sense only, is not Life. 

"Thou Living Word" means nothing more 
nor less than the Instinctive Manhood within, 



46 mind's silent partner 

which produced us out of Principle, and which 
offers us the same Principle to know and ever 
live with in conscious oneness. The only way 
we can enter into the Principle of Manhood, is 
through the Divine Instinctive Manhood 
within. That is what is meant by the Way. 
Jesus announced this in the words "I am the 
Way, the Truth and the Life." So are you, 
and so am I, and so is everyone. When you 
refer to that Way you are speaking of the 
Spirit within, which produced you. The 
mind has found its way out from the Within, 
and is capable of looking back and understand- 
ing the way it came. All the life a man thus 
has came from its root in Subjective Manhood 
within, Instinct with Principle. Calling this 
Instinct into the intuitional office for transla- 
tion into self -consciousness is the only way 
whereby one will be able to enter into Life, 
Knowledge-Life. Instinct of Godhood comes 
through Divine Manhood into the office that 
has been prepared for its coining and, is then 
flashed upon the mind as a light in the dark- 
ness. While the mind is only lighted in terms 
of sense, without knowing the Light from the 



THOU, MY INDWELLING CHRIST 47 

Knowledge-Spirit within, the darkness of ig- 
norance obtains. 

Now the Knowledge-Spirit within is to us 
the Christ Spirit. This is a religious term, 
which in scientific phraseology indicates that 
there is a Subjectivity at the present moment 
which is capable of being translated into self- 
consciousness, so that the man, in his personal 
conduct, may be able to show forth his Origin, 
by expressing his likeness to the Master 
within, in his mind's daily activities both 
above and below the threshold of cognition. 
The religious world, receiving such an one and 
believing in him, would call him a Christ, as 
did those who received Jesus. But, in using 
the word "Christ" in this connection, the 
meaning is that the man has arrived at the ul- 
timate of what he instinctively set out to be- 
come, namely self-conscious of his own indwel- 
ling Power and Wisdom, Goodness, Love, and 
Eternal Life. 

I like that "Living Word of God," or "Liv- 
ing Word of the Knowledge-Principle: the 
Manhood Principle." It seems so wonder- 
fully active to speak of it in that way. 



48 mind's silent partner 

Now Jesus was described as that Word in 
personal life. The Word, coming from In- 
stinctive Man up into the office of the mind, 
and voiced by the Master, expresses just what 
was given to Him from His own Within which 
created Him in personality. Every man is 
the Word of God, the Word of Principle. I 
do not mean that every personality expresses 
that Word, but it foreshadows It, because 
man, in his present state of progress towards 
knowing his Principle, is only in his initial 
state. He is like an unfinished building. 
Therefore personalities at present do not ex- 
press that Word, they have not yet the Spirit 
of the Word: but we are finding the way to 
bring that Spirit out. The way was opened 
to us by the Master's Teaching. 

Words are born just as bodies are born, only 
they come directly out of the mind, through 
the mind, into the consciousness of the one 
who invents them. Anyone inventing a word 
must first have the spirit, the conception, and 
the word is given to him from Within. 
Whether it be a written, or a spoken word, a 
hieroglyph, or the terms of some mechanical 
invention does not matter ; it is a word. We 



THOU, MY INDWELLING CHRIST 49 

are accustomed to confine ourselves in using 
that term to some utterance of the voice or 
of a written hieroglyph, but levery funda- 
mental word has a spirit; every word that 
has proceeded from the Principle of our 
Life has the Spirit of that Principle in it, 
and is as a seed for anyone to plant in 
his mind intelligently. He may then expect 
from it a revelation. The revelation will be 
of its spirit first, as imparted to the mind, 
then, it may be put into terms of ordinary 
expression. All these words that mean God, 
take their rise in the Spirit of Knowledge. 
They are called out finally, with their flesh, 
their bodies, written or spoken, in terms of 
vibration, and they bring with them the Spirit 
of the Most High. We receive these Sub- 
stance words into our intellectual office, and 
understand them as having an abstract signi- 
ficance, but we have not been in the habit of 
endeavouring to extract from them their 
spirit; we have not even realised that these 
great words have a definite spirit. Take, for 
instance, the word "Life." When it is prop- 
erly understood, there is but one Life in the 
universe. Man-life is mental, not physical, 



50 mind's silent partner 

therefore that word has proceeded from its 
source in Principle to express the Spirit 
within Principle. When you say " Omnis- 
cient Life/' when you qualify it in that way, it 
takes on its Royal Origin in Deity, in the Man- 
hood-Principle. 'The Word' had to get its 
spirit and its body from Within. This we 
have never understood. The conception has 
been abstract to most people of to-day, just as 
it was hundreds of years ago. Yet 'The 
Word' has the potentiality within itself of re- 
vealing to self-consciousness an emotional 
spirit, The Spirit, Original Feeling Infinite 
Wisdom, unmistakable Wisdom, unmistakable 
Life. 

We have not realised that Jesus meant what 
He said. I speak of Jesus as a Master, the 
Master, One who brought many of these words 
into existence with their true Spirit. We get 
easily enough the meaning or spirit of words 
we are accustomed to make practical use of in 
our daily affairs. You can use two words that 
are of exactly the same import and yet give 
them exactly the opposite spirit. The Great 
Words had to be born to bring to birth the 
Spirit of them into the mind of the one who 



THOU, MY INDWELLING CHRIST 51 

coined them, to give that Spirit its body; yet 
those who received the words did not get the 
full Spirit, only the letter of them. Now the 
Words that reveal Man's Principle are Spirit 
and Life, when you know them. But until 
they are known, spiritually, they are as ab- 
stract as is the word Principle Itself. Many 
object to the use of the word Principle to desig- 
nate God, as being cold, abstract, therefore, in 
order to avoid the abstract, they clothe Im- 
mutability with the personal term God, recog- 
nising the personal presentment but not that 
Within which presented it, the abstract Prin- 
ciple. God is spoken of as being immutable, — 
so is Principle. Principle is also formless, 
yet contains within Itself all possibility of 
form. Principle warms your bodies, — with 
98.3 per cent of heat, the opposite of cold. 
Principle functions in these bodies when called 
out to do so, and you get love ; which is warmth 
to the mind's consciousness. This too is the 
opposite of cold. Why is the Abstract not 
included in your appreciation of the warmth 
or the love that you feel? It is simply that 
you do not know that which is the Source of 
all action in terms of your existence. You 



52 mind's silent partner 

recognise perfectly well that you get for the 
moment an order of Love out of It; that 
you get heat out of It ; you get your senses 
lighted by It yet you do not love It ! One just 
loves what It has done, in nature and in 
the human without acknowledgment of the 
Doer. All that Principle does, is done through 
Instinctive Man, Its Likeness. It is high time 
It were acknowledged in the warmth of con- 
crete personal love, for, after all, 'without 
Principle, one can do nothing, be nothing. 
The love known to the race has been concreted 
in the psychical record. When the Love that 
Principle is, is likewise concreted in pneumat- 
ological record, then it will be natural to love 
God with transcendental warmth. Meditative 
science is to this end. 

Now the Master of Life said that God is to 
be known, that His Kingdom is within us, and 
that He is within His Kingdom. ' ' The Father 
dwelling within, He doeth the works." Al- 
though the Father has not been disclosed to the 
inind of self -consciousness, — He is there, feed- 
ing the mind with His Life. The natural 
mind is ready to take all the gifts of the Spirit, 
but never thinks it possible to know It now, nor 



THOU, MY INDWELLING CHRIST 53 

even tries to know that which is continually 
lighting it. "Come now forth Thou Living 
Word, and light the offices of the mind which 
Thou hast founded in the earth-elements." 
This is the desire that has come to the surface 
and is being expressed; this desire, with ex- 
pectancy, is one step towards bringing It 
forth. " Continue in the Word," the Master 
said, "and you shall know the Truth." 
"Come now forth, Thou Living Word, and 
light the offices of the mind which Thou hast 
founded in the earth-elements with Thy Spirit 
of Eternal Life." Now the Spirit of Eternal 
Life inheres in man. It is abstract to us only 
because our self-consciousness has not appre- 
hended it. Principle is above time, above 
space, above any of our limitations. No mat- 
ter though the whole world of personality 
passes, Eternal Life remains, transcending all 
that has been disclosed either directly through 
the mind or the lenses of the sensorium. 

Let us all get a better understanding, a bet- 
ter realisation of the dignity of words. Let 
them be compared to seeds to be sown in the 
ground. These seeds may remain unchanged 
for unlimited years ; when sown in proper soil, 



54 mind's silent partner 

however, they produce after their kind. The 
spirit and intent that lies in the seed, responds 
to its proper environment. So it is with 
word-seeds. They will continue to live and 
produce after their kind. One generation 
after another will take them up, and carry 
them along, and they will produce, after 
the conception of the race, as much as the 
race calls out of them of their original intent. 
But as we are alive to the spirit of the words 
belonging to personal life so much more than 
we are alive to the spirit of words which belong 
to Eternal Life, there is a corresponding 
paucity of feeling concerning Life Eternal. 
We have not, so far, had the expectancy to 
enable us to be faithful, to keep them in the 
soil of the mind, to do our part towards bring- 
ing forth their spirit into the self -conscious- 
ness. The womb for the spiritual gestation of 
these words is the brain, the office of the mind. 
This is where they fructify and bring forth 
their fruit. To these words Instinctive Man 
has given a spirit. It knocks now at the door 
of self-consciousness. Let then our minds 
open the door, so that the spirit of the words 



I AM 55 

formulated in our meditation, may be born on 
the self-conscious side of existence. 

"Thou, my Indwelling Christ, Word of God, 
art my Creative Spirit of Love, and the Om- 
niscient, self-controlling Omnipotence of my 
mind within. Come now forth, Thou Living 
Word, and light the offices of the mind Thou 
hast founded in the earth-elements with Thy 
Spirit of Eternal Life and Infinite Knowl- 
edge-Love, that Thy Kingdom may come and 
Thy will be done, in my kingdom of self -con- 
sciousness as it is in the pure Subjectivity of 
Thy Kingdom Within.' ' 



"i am" 



This teaching has grown by what we have 
learned from the Spirit. The word " Spirit" 
has various meanings to people. They say 
"the spirit moved me" with a sentimental 
meaning, but it does not bear that significance 
in this teaching. The movements of Spirit 
produce knowledge of Spirit in the mind and 
nothing save what is also in the likeness of 
Knowledge. 



56 mind's silent partner 

To be moved continuously by the Spirit 
would produce a perennial self -consciousness 
of the Most High. We used to make the state- 
ment with emphasis "I am a living soul" and 
thought it wonderful. "Man became a living 
soul," as recorded in the Old Testament when 
he was clothed with the elements, but what is 
soul without the quickening Spirit, whose Man- 
term is Christ ? 

When this Spirit speaks to us effectively we 
shall be following in the way of Life. 

Jesus, Himself undoubtedly practised in the 
Way He taught; we also must follow in the 
one way. 

The living soul has come into personal form 
and has connection with God only through the 
quickening Spirit — Christ — Subjective Man — 
Instinctive Man. By unerring Instinct of the 
Man-Principle was the organisation for self- 
consciousness brought forth. 

We start with the meditation "I Am" but 
we must translate our identity from the per- 
sonal "I am" to the individual spirit "I Am," 
and thus regenerate our personal conscious- 
ness. There is only one ' ' I Am, ' ' — God. Man 
is an integer of Omniscience, the active mem- 



I AM 57 

ber of the Trinity of Principle — The First, 
and is capable of attaining to Divine self -con- 
sciousness of his Omniscient Man-Principle. 

"I Am" 

Imagine that Subjective Man is speaking ; as 
if Instinctive Man-Life, which created mind 
and body, had come into the mind's offices by 
our desire and invitation and were voicing It- 
self. Do not let the living soul imagine itself 
as "I Am." "Let all the earth, — the living 
soul, — be silent so that I may come into my 
birthright." 

The only way to live is to come into contact 
with Life. There can be no real life apart 
from the Man-Entity, apart from Christ. 
There is no life in Subjectivity without Christ. 
Without Him there is no motive power or 
instinctive ability. 

These things are true to the Teaching of the 
Master and true to deductive science. It is 
a mystery to us how it is all done until the mind 
realises that another state is attainable 
through the mind's contact with its Original- 
Source as well as with its environment. So we 
make use of the affirmation "I Am" as if Sub- 
jective Manhood were speaking within us. 



58 mind's silent partner 

We know nothing about the realm of Instinc- 
tive Man so far as creating and manifesting 
are concerned. 

Man in his ordinary state is influenced by 
his environment, that is by his conception of 
it. Consequently no two people are exactly 
alike, particularly in their mental activities. 
Hold the meditation and get accustomed to the 
idea that the affirmation is of our very life. 

"I Am" 

This means that we are loosed, as it were, 
from our personal consciousness. Subjective 
Manhood is announcing Itself to the mind. At 
this moment It is intimately present. It has 
offices in our organisation, but we have to in- 
vite and induce Its coming into the offices of 
the mind. In proportion as It comes, and in 
the moment of Its coming at our call, It brings 
the works of Righteousness into the necessities 
of the moment. It heals and ultimately dis- 
pels all poverty, sickness and unhappy con- 
ditions. 

"I Am" 
This announcement is now in imagination 
made by the Creative Entity within, in dis- 
tinction from the soul experiences we have had 



I AM 59 

and have thought to constitute ourselves. The 
Spiritual Entity makes Its home in the offices 
of self -consciousness at our desire, expressed 
in the words of our meditation, in order that 
It may become subject to the ready call of the 
mind. So the meditation is spoken by our 
Christ within and not from any personal 
standards. 

"I Am" 
The meditation comes into our mind and is 
transmuted to feeling as silently as our daily 
bread does its work of building up our organi- 
sation. Many people feel the coming as a 
vibration in the brain. 

Intellect alone cannot make the meditation 
alive to any one. Progress can be made more 
rapidly by keeping before the mind the con- 
viction of the Truth uttered in the new con- 
ception of the "I Am." The intellect per- 
ceives; the quickening spirit or feeling, how- 
ever, has yet to be born through the medium 
of further meditation. 

"I Am the Way" 

Jesus said these words but His Christ within 
gave them to Him to say. We have inter- 
preted Christ as personal, and the Way as a 



60 mind's silent partner 

way of suffering, of poverty, and of objective 
sacrifice. We have thought that we were fol- 
lowing in "The Way" by imitating the per- 
sonal facts of Jesus' life. We deify His ago- 
nies and sufferings and forget that He chose 
this course in order to put Himself on a parity 
with the race, which would have to come 
up through and out of their tribulations 
through following the way of Eegeneration as 
He did. 

It is true that all must follow a path of 
suffering more or less, to disenchant them of 
their Garden of Eden of the senses. We have 
all more or less to become dissatisfied with our 
previous ways ; we are not likely to start along 
the path of development until this dissatisfac- 
tion comes, and we begin to recognise the 
failure of the life of the senses alone to fulfill 
our desires. The Master said: "I Am the 
Way," but lest we should think He meant us 
to imitate Him objectively He followed this 
statement up with words related to mental 
life. All these terms, Way, Truth, Life, are 
equal to each other. So the Way is mental, 
Truth and Life are surely mental, so far as 
man is concerned or he would be a brute. The 



I AM 61 

Way is within to the mind, the same Divine 
Within as that of the Master. He, however, 
brought It into self-consciousness. Yet we 
have considered His Teaching and suffering as 
something personal to Himself and apart from 
us. 

He did not mean this. Life is a mental 
Substance and must be acquired from within 
by the mind in the self-evident way He taught. 
Recognise that what Jesus taught came to Him 
through His Christhood, representing the act- 
ual Omniscience of God within Him. The 
meaning of His saying "I Am the Way" taken 
in the sense of following His personality has 
not answered the needs of the world, more- 
over, it is not His teaching. 

He said: "The things I do ye shall do also." 
We only have to follow simply the Way of re- 
generation that Jesus taught, to realise its 
truth. 

The Subjectivity of the mental offices speaks 
to us saying, "I Am the Way, the Truth, and 
the Life." We ought to be able to feel the 
spiritual Presence of the Christ in ourselves as 
vividly as we realise our ordinary emotional 
experiences, and be ready to approach this 



62 mind's silent partner 

[Presence for Divine Knowledge, with its Di- 
vine Healing, as we are to approach one 
another for personal satisfaction. 

First, this Presence must be born into the 
mind, and such a meditation as "I Am the 
Way" is wonderfully effective in bringing the 
Christ feeling into the self-conscious life. 

All our lives the Manhood within has led us 
on quite unconsciously to ourselves, enabling 
us to live first in the "Adam" way. But we 
have yet to become conscious of the Christ- 
way. Toward this end these meditations 
are pregnant with possibility. The gesta- 
tion of the spiritual experiences of medi- 
tation constitutes in the fullness of time a 
pneumatological record in the same way as 
the gestation of race-experience in the organ 
prepared for it constitutes a psychical record. 

It is helpful to call out an understanding of 
the words we use, for example, " Subjective- 
Man." The subject of a sentence is the cause 
and the motive of the sentence. Subjective- 
Man is the cause of the objective organisation, 
and is subject to the call of the mind It has 
created, in that It is ever responsive to its 



I AM 63 

child. God self-consciousness is the object of 
Subjective-Man's attainment. 

Subjective-Man brought forth and estab- 
lished the mind of man and attends it, minis- 
tering to its requirements, the highest of which 
is to know in its own terms, its Origin and 
destiny. 

Through this process we are to get the 
equivalent of our own pure Subjectivity in 
terms of self -consciousness, and thus come 
into touch with the Fountain-Head of our 
existence. 

The mind is the object to self-conscious ends 
of Subjective Man, because He created it 
through the faculty we call Instinct. Divine 
Man is subject to the call of that which It has 
brought forth and is subject to any call its 
office makes. 

Not to know our divine Subjective-Life 
means that we are playing blind man's buff, 
but the Creative intent is that we shall know 
It. The Master's Subjectivity answered His 
calls during thirty-three years, until He was 
able to say that He had dominion over all 
things. 



64 mind's silent partner 

Subject cannot become object, but It has an 
office in Its object in which sympathetic ex- 
changes can take place. 



u 



I AM" 



This meditation should be taken in the spirit 
which recognises that the old personal idea one 
has held of one's ego shall pass that the true 
idea of our Entity may obtain, namely the 
spirit of Divine Manhood. 

This "I AM" is very important, indicating 
"Is-ness." The personal "I AM," does not 
beat the heart, the Creative Spirit does that, 
being the real "I AM," that is, the indwelling 
Christ does it by means of Principle, of which 
Trinity He is the second member. Let then 
our present idea of the personal "I AM" de- 
crease, while we call the Creative Spirit, the 
Christ Spirit into the offices of the mind, by 
means of which shall be born a new personality 
in Its likeness. 

We used to be taught that God created all. 
This is true, but Christ is the creative office of 
God. He is endowed with the Principle of 
Manhood existence, that Instinctive element 
which is capable of using the whole of Prin- 



I AM 65 

ciple, bringing It forth to blossom in self- 
consciousness. 

Our idea of some words in common usage 
needs to be regenerated in order that their 
original spirit may be disclosed as belonging 
to original Manhood-Consciousness within. 

For instance there is a natural prejudice 
against the word "instinct" because of its hav- 
ing been associated With animal life. The 
self-conscious equivalent for instinct in man 
is intuition. 

Similarly there is a prejudice against the 
word "Principle," as an equivalent of Omni- 
science, to those not accustomed to its meaning 
as Light or Life of the mind. God is the 
sensuous term for a personal Deity. Prin- 
ciple is the mental term for the Omniscience. 

In Principle lies the potentiality of activity, 
and Instinct is the initial faculty or office by 
which the potentiality becomes actuality in 
movements towards the predestiny of Self- 
conscious Manhood. Instinct may be called 
Christ Subjectivity, which when fully blos- 
somed out on the self-conscious side of exist- 
ence ultimately becomes indivualised as Christ. 

In pure Subjectivity, the predestiny of self- 



66 mind's silent partner 

conscious manhood, there is no evil. Evil has 
no existence in Creative Power, and bears no 
likeness to Principle in our world of sense con- 
ception. Before Divine Manhood comes into 
the self -consciousness of man, that is, before 
Instinct is translated into terms of intuitional 
knowledge, we have good and evil, because we 
do not know the Divine Wisdom-Emotion. 

The mind acts upon its own imagination 
from objective standards, the result being soul- 
emotion. This is the origin of evil on the self- 
conscious side of existence. 

Evil, then, may be defined as the product in 
terms of emotion, of mind action from false 
premises. This is how evil has stumbled into 
existence without asking any odds of Principle 
except to be functioned in the dark by it. If 
one acts ignorantly one only gets results ac- 
cording to the grounds of action, and these 
results are named evil. Man in himself is not 
evil, and in Principle evil has no existence. 
Therefore it is the Divine and not the human 
in us that should meditate. 

The Mind is a Divine creation and in medi- 
tating it departs from considerations of sense 
or any consciousness of belonging to sense. 



I AM 67 

The first thing the mind must grasp is the sim- 
ple Truth that Principle is the very First in 
all emotional possibility. It is Life. Sensa- 
tion is not life, but only a part of life's activ- 
ity, though always adjunctive to primal life. 

An architect, evolving a house, fishes, so to 
speak, through his sense-emotion into Prin- 
ciple. Desire stimulates his imagination, with 
which power, combined thus with emotion, he 
angles for what he wants out of Principle to be 
translated into terms of self-conscious knowl- 
edge in his mind. Though the architect sees 
the results at this stage, with the required 
activities of mind and body, they must be 
placed on paper and cast in the elements before 
the house may be seen by others as the archi- 
tect conceived it. 

There is the same sort of action in the growth 
of seeds. There is that associated with the 
seed that corresponds to that which we know in 
conscious-life as imagination. (When the seed 
is properly planted and cared for, this instinc- 
tive imagination brings the idea to be ex- 
pressed from a state of pure subjectivity into 
a corresponding objective form. In the hu- 
man being, the soul, with its bodily counter- 



68 mind's silent partner 

part, has been untruly called, man. It is, how- 
ever, but his instrument for attaining Divine 
Self-Consciousness of the Omniscient Princi- 
ple of his existence. 

In the second chapter of Genesis, man is 
described as being clothed with the dust of the 
ground, the chemical elements. So also in 
gestation, from the moment of union of the 
two principles, he is cast in the body-elements 
by the urge within the seed, man-seed being 
on a par with all seeds. 

Divine Nature is not a theological term only. 
It refers to Substantial Knowledge, Life-Sub- 
stance. In material science we learn of the 
life-principle but with a meaning that is sec- 
ondary, not having reference to the essential 
Substance Itself. More expectancy will de- 
velop in our minds as we realise that we are 
not dealing with a cold, abstract, incomprehen- 
sible substance, but with warm emotional Crea- 
tive Power, that the mind may unite with and 
bring forth in terms of self -consciousness, to 
the glory of the Omniscience within. This is 
Christ's teaching, given by the personal man, 
Jesus. 

Let us then call Christ into the office of the 



I AM 69 

mind by speaking words that are indicative of 
Christ in association with the Omniscience, — 
i ' I AM. ' ' Meanwhile we must continually re- 
member that meditation is not intellectual 
rumination and is not used to designate con- 
centrated religious thinking. Eeligious feel- 
ing, up to recent years, has generally been ac- 
cording to an intellectual conception of anthro- 
pomorphism. 

"I AM" is a true statement of Being, but it 
must be used to decrease the personal con- 
sciousness and increase the Christ conscious- 
ness, as the words call Christ into the offices of 
consciousness. The "I AM" in ultimated 
personality is Christ; the "I AM" of Christ 
is God. 

The " I AM" of Christ is an office of Prin- 
ciple, wherein Principle becomes active. The 
activity is Christ, or Man, and the Christ 
activities are toward self-consciousness of all 
the qualities of Principle or Omniscience. We 
cannot use such a concentrated term as " In- 
stinct" to express Man unless we explain 
that Man is the second Member of the Trinity 
of Principle, and that Man, in His original 
home in God, is a facsimile of God in terms of 



70 mind's silent partner 

Instinct the same as Divine Generic Man — 
universal Man-Instinct of God. 

It is written, practically, though not in just 
these words, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy 
Life, with all thy heart and with all thy mind 
and shalt desire only and abide in thine emo- 
tional Principle — the Life Substance — within 
thee." 

This may be thought a strange meditation, 
but we must find some means of knowing that 
the Kingdom of God is within, though not as 
yet disclosed in terms of Its own Knowledge. 
Ignorance, being a lack of knowledge, must 
give way as knowledge comes. 

It is important that we should not confuse 
terms, such as soul, mind, Spirit, Principle, 
and make mind primarily the instrument of 
soul. From soul premises spiritual conclu- 
sions cannot be drawn. We need to get the 
teaching clearly defined in order to make the 
practice clear. A scientist who mixed his 
terms theoretically could not do practical 
work, and so it is with the Teaching of the 
Master. 

There are plenty of people more highly edu- 
cated, and perhaps of finer temperament than 






I AM 71 

some who are teaching Spiritual things, but 
our chief concern in the quest of Truth should 
not be with personality but with Principle. 
If, in learning mathematics, you want the 
principle you do not think of the personality 
of the teacher. Many things have value in 
bringing people into greater wisdom, but in 
teaching Truth we feel safe in the utterances 
of Jesus. Moreover, when deductive science 
proves the accuracy of His teaching, we ar- 
rive at something more than an interesting be- 
lief. 

In trying to practise the science of Spiritual 
Truth we must be sure to use terms correctly, 
so that we may make true moves in our mental 
operations. 

Principle in Its purest significance is 
strictly Fundamental Emotional Substance, 
that is to be expressed in the mind's conscious- 
ness. Proper results, such as the Master 
promised, can only be obtained by practicing 
His teaching. The world has not received 
from its practice of Christianity what Jesus 
promised would follow the abiding in His 
Words. The time is now fully ripe for us to 
do what He said in order to achieve those re- 
sults. 



72 mind's silent partner 

"Thou shalt love the Lord thy Life with all 
thy heart and with all thy mind, and shalt 
desire only and abide in thine Emotional 
Principle — the Life Substance — within thee." 



"inspiration of the knowledge- 
spirit WITHIN ME" 



Words have a surface meaning, a soul mean- 
ing, and a spiritual meaning. It is necessary 
to distinguish by a qualifying adjective which 
order a word expresses. 

"Knowledge" has commonly been known as 
an intellectual term, equivalent to "educa- 
tion." We are now to consider the Omnis- 
cient order of Knowledge. There is but one 
Knowledge that is Substance Itself, and this 
seems easier to understand when we term It 
Principle. 

Intellectual knowledge is not Life. Life 
gives the opportunity to obtain secondary 
knowledge of that sort. Intellect is but the 
servant of Knowledge. Knowledge has but 
one Source — Omniscience. Thus our words, 
"Inspiration of Knowledge" mean Inspira- 



INSPIRATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE-SPIRIT 73 

tion of God," but God being a word somewhat 
indicative of personality, we find it better to 
make use of words which express what God Is, 
as, for example, Principle meaning the First 
" before anything was made that hath been 
made." 

We have called upon the Spirit of Omnis- 
cience, linked our minds with It, through the 
words of our meditation. When one is in- 
spired with Knowledge on the self-conscious 
side of existence, he is for the moment com- 
muning with Life. 

Man cannot speak of himself, cannot say "I" 
without bringing God into it, since all the man 
there is dwells subjectively with God, with 
Original, Substantial Knowledge. All the 
utterances of Jesus in which He spoke with 
authority as "I" might be spoken just as truly 
by any personality who had understanding of 
the Divine Entity within. In other words, Je- 
sus was just the psychological record estab- 
lished in an organism by means of which He 
had come into a self-consciousness of God, and 
when He spoke of God and man it was not Je- 
sus speaking, it was God, Jesus being the vi- 
brating instrument which gave utterance to the 



74 mind's silent partner 

revealing words arising from the Grod-Kealm 
within. 

So, in these meditations, whenever we say 
"I" or " Thou, " the personal man is not speak- 
ing. Rather Instinctive Man speaks through 
the chrysalis of the human being. The per- 
sonal man has lent his whole instrument to the 
Master in order that he may speak through it. 

It is an order of spirit couched in terms of 
words that speaks through the instrument, 
whatsoever be the plane of consciousness that 
engages the mind at the moment. It is the 
Spirit which the words carry that indicates 
their Source and reveals the state of mind that 
is being expressed. 

"I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto 
me.'' 

Our meditation, at first sight, appears to 
have a psychical and physical meaning, that 
is, as if "I" meant the personal Christ. In a 
minor sense it does. In so far as the organisa- 
tion is concerned in the delivery of the mes- 
sage of the meditation, it does have its psychi- 
cal and physical meaning. But what would 
the lifting up of the body of the Master on the 
cross mean to us spiritually had not His mind 



INSPIRATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE-SPIRIT 75 

become exalted in triumph over the tragedy 
of it ? Did it not mean also a divine mastery 
of the last enemy, death ? Was not His mind 
exalted while His body was being nailed to 
the cross? Was He not lifted up spiritually 
by the practice of His own Teaching which 
brought Him to the point of overcoming 
death, of which the experience on the cross 
was the introduction, and His subsequent nor- 
mal appearance at the time He had predicted, 
the completion ? When he reappeared as Mas- 
ter of Life, having passed triumphantly 
through the world's sign of failure, death, was 
not the whole experience — a tragedy to us, to 
Him, a transcendental lifting up of the Son 
of man, (Instinctive Man) ? 

Does it not mean that any member of the 
race following the development that He fol- 
lowed, as indicated by His Teaching, would be 
lifted up into such association with Life that 
the last enemy would pass out rather than his 
own personality? Did He not indicate that 
His followers, having had depicted to them 
the Omnipotence of Life realised in the 
mind, would need no further death-tragedy in 
their own lives; that they also might become 



76 mind's silent partner 

one with the Spirit while on earth, entering 
into their Inheritance here without paying 
race-tribute to the dust ? 

Let it be remembered that in the practice of 
meditation we are not primarily endeavouring 
to overcome death, but rather to enter into 
Life, and let Life lead us to what state it may. 

We are not endeavouring to overcome the 
last enemy first, but through inducing the 
Spirit of Righteousness, of Knowledge, from 
its Subjectivity into the mind's cognition, to 
dispel the darkling emotions of our race in- 
heritance, — selfishness, envy, jealousy, pride, 
anger, revenge, and the like, — enemies that 
lead up to the last enemy and must be met by 
the Spirit of Knowledge first and dispelled 
from the soul's domain. 

"I, if I be lifted up will draw all men unto 
me. ' ' Let us take the true meaning. It could 
not be the "I" of personality. "I of myself 
can do nothing, the Master dwelling within 
doeth all things" for me, at my desire. 
Whatsoever I am doing, it is because of the 
Father dwelling within, working through me. 
"I" is the Man Entity which vitalises the 
whole organisation. This "IV is subjective 



INSPIRATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE-SPIRIT 77 

and is lifted up into the mind's self -conscious- 
ness by the mind's daily concrete spiritual 
desire. 

Every man in the universe has the same "I" 
as the Master had, the same divine Entity, the 
same God, the same Knowledge- Substance, the 
same great Subjectivity. Every man, men- 
tally exalting in himself the Entity corres- 
ponding to that within the Master, concretes 
the Christ-consciousness in his brain record, 
that is, the self-consciousness is becoming a 
likeness of Divine Manhood. Personal man 
thus becomes the expression of Divine Man- 
hood. In experiencing this, the mind is lifted 
up above the sense-view of manhood. 

We are all now pursuing the course, in medi- 
tation, that shall uplift us progressively from 
life vested in soul and personality to Life 
vested in Divine Manhood drawn from 
Subjectivity through education from that 
Source. 

Instead of always re-enacting race-experi- 
ence, something is done day by day towards 
the uplifting of the Son of Man from within ; 
as the Master was lifted up, so all mankind 
must be lifted up in order to know God. 



78 mind's silent partner 

Jesus was endeavouring to express His 
meaning concerning Life and death, as shown 
in the sixth Chapter of St. John, when from 
that time, "many of His disciples went back 
and walked with Him no more." 

Apparently He did not attempt to speak in 
such plain terms again, but spoke in parables, 
leaving it for the ages to reveal His true mean- 
ing. 

Ultimately one is to get for one's self, 
through meditation, Knowledge from the 
Great Source, but inspiration to that end may 
be obtained through personal instruction and 
reading. Thus one can learn something in 
advance of one's present evolution. -But 
everyday 's practice of meditation leads to- 
ward the goal of efficiency in acquiring Spirit- 
ual Light straight from Within. 

Prepare then to receive the Gospel directly 
from the Within by faithfully holding your 
meditation as if the spirit of the words were 
issuing out of pure Subjectivity, just as the 
spirit of them was in the Master before He 
pronounced the Words. 

Every one who uses the words in meditation, 
is day by day being lifted up from Within, and 



FAITH IN THE OMNIPOTENT LIFE 79 

what meditation will do for one it will do for 
all. As Jesus said, "I, if I be lifted up, will 
draw all men unto Me." And everyone so 
lifted up from bis Within will be drawn unto 
Christ, that is, into a Christ state of conscious- 
ness. 

As our pneumatological store grows, Spirit- 
ual Knowledge is attained. During medita- 
tion, inspiration is coming into the mind, 
nascent from its Source in the Pure Subjectiv- 
ity of the Within. "I, if I be lifted up, will 
draw all men unto me." This is a universal 
Truth for each individual to sit with in Medi- 
tation, the Divine-Subjectivity within as its 
base, the mind as its summit, and Divine-Self - 
consciousness as the object of attainment. 

"Inspiration of the Knowledge-Spirit 
Within me." 



"faith in the omnipotent life 
within me" 

We are so accustomed to use the terms power 
and force interchangeably, that while medita- 



80 mind's silent partner 

ting on Omnipotence the effect on the beginner 
when sensitive, is to produce a stress on the 
body, a wrought-up feeling. But, persisting 
in its use, its action softens, and a sense of 
exaltation and well-being pervade the con- 
sciousness. " Power " is a mental term, re- 
ferring to Knowledge, while "force" has 
rather a sensuous significance. 

The mental process of digestion of ideas is 
similar to the physical process of digestion. 
The ideas are sifted, the mind fixes upon such 
as it wishes to deal with, digests and as- 
similates them in proportion to its capacity. 
The result is a store of correspondent feeling. 
The physical life of man is the product of sub- 
jective mental action to the end of self-con- 
scious existence. 

Hidden in the words of our meditation is a 
message from Life Itself, — Life as related 
primarily to the mind, secondarily to the soul 
and the body. As digestion and assimilation 
of these words take place in the mind's offices, 
the resultant consciousness is translated, dup- 
licated in terms of blood, and evidenced in 
mental and physical well-being. 

Let us realise for a moment the whole object 



FAITH IN THE OMNIPOTENT LIFE 81 

of what we call life. Without Life man would 
not exist. Let us apply the word Life as re- 
lated directly to mind, Life being the Principle 
of all Knowledge. Principle and mind are 
inseparable in substance. Let us drop the 
meditation down into the mind, as one would 
angle in a stream. 

" Faith in the Omnipotent Life within me." 
This combination of words brought forth 
into self-consciousness to represent Principle, 
brings Life to the mind and thence to the ad- 
junctive offices of the body for carrying on the 
operations of self-consciousness. 

Let me suggest that you take this meditation 
into your mind with the idea that it is related 
to Life Itself ; take it with the understanding 
that Life is Knowledge, and that the medita- 
tion is the means of bringing forth knowledge 
of Life into the self-consciousness of the mind. 

The supreme office of the body is the brain, 
the residence of the mind, which has subsidi- 
ary offices in various regions of the body. The 
digestion of ideas in the mind calls automatic- 
ally, so to speak, for their incarnation through 
the activity of those offices. 

Take the meditation into the mind and stay 



82 mind's silent partner 

with it, repeating the words, so that the con- 
ceiving office of the mind shall brood over them 
while their spirit is being delivered in terms 
of spiritual record. 

Each meditation builds up an increment of 
spiritual feeling that shall always be a factor 
in the masonry of your self-consciousness, for 
voluntary and involuntary reference and use 
towards the continuance of existence. Life is 
that which relates Itself to the mind in terms 
of Knowledge, which is Supreme in Man. 
God is Omnipotence, Omniscience, having 
within His Substance all power of creation, of 
bringing forth. 

Now I want to change one word of the medi- 
tation ; many will probably feel the difference 
in the effect : — 

" Faith in the Omniscient Life within me." 

This means that we want that active, emo- 
tional Faith in the Omniscience of Manhood 
Principle within, that puts It at our disposal 
for use. 

These words represent Substance, the Spirit 
of Life, which they call forth into the mind's 
consciousness. That which we know as mind, 
is but an extension of the domain of man from 



FAITH IN THE OMNIPOTENT LIFE 83 

the pure Subjective, to a self-conscious ex- 
istence. When the mind becomes self-con- 
scious of its Principle, man will be able to 
know the purpose of his existence, his re- 
sources, his derivation, and the authority for 
his existence. 

Let us now take the meditation as if spoken 
from the Divine Manhood within ; 

" Faith in the Omniscient Life, within me." 

Imagine the Creative-Spirit within to be 
speaking the Words. Remain perfectly pas- 
sive and attend, as they are translated into 
cell-feeling. Repeat the words often enough 
to remain riveted to the idea. 

To have real faith in the spiritual meaning 
of our meditation, would be to call the self- 
conscious equivalent of it into cell-life. 

Faith needs to be born from Its Substance, 
and it is the moiety of discernment and faith 
within you already that stimulates you to hold 
the meditation in order to accumulate the 
further Faith it suggests. 



84 mind's silent partner 



u 



TRUSTING IN THEE, MY HEAVENLY FATHER 
WITHIN,, I HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR, EVERY 
GOOD THING TO EXPECT" 



We need to get something more than an 
intellectual perception of Truth, and more 
than the religious teaching of Truth which we 
have inherited. For practical ends we need 
to experience the feeling latent in the words of 
our meditation, which is called into the mind's 
record through the practice of meditating. 

First it must be realised that the Heavenly 
Father is not an anthropomorphic Being in- 
habiting another sphere, but is Within, and is 
Life, ready to respond to the desire of the 
mind. "For your Heavenly Father knoweth 
what you have need of before you ask Him." 
Asking opens the door for Him to reveal His 
Spirit to us. The opening of the door is the 
part that the mind is called upon to perform. 

"Ask and ye shall receive, Seek and ye shall 
find, Knock and it shall be opened unto you." 
The Heavenly Father is Father to the mind 
and Father of the mind. 

The Heavenly Father is Instinctive Man, 



TRUSTING IN THEE 85 

the Man-Entity in the likeness of the whole 
Principle of Omniscience within. This defi- 
nition answers to the words of the Master, 
"The Kingdom of God is within you," since 
the Life within knows our need and has pro- 
vided a way by which that need can be satis- 
fied. That way is the asking, through the use 
of desire revealing words, sent up to the mind 
by Omniscience within. 

We have not each a separate life from 
others ; all is One Life ; there is no splitting up 
of Life-Principle. Each has inherited It all 
just as he has inherited race-feeling. 

The Heavenly Father is Father of the mind, 
is one with the Spirit of Omniscience within, 
by which each individual is created, the Spirit 
by which man himself in turn creates for pur- 
poses of living environmental life. 

The Heavenly Father is Instinctive Man in 
the likeness of God because his instinct is of 
Omniscient Principle. He is continuously at 
the back of the mind, ready at our behest to 
deliver Light, Knowledge; He is at hand as- 
sociated with the Kingdom of Principle 
within. 

Of the two, which is the safer to choose as 



86 mind's silent partner 

to who or what to depend upon for existence ; 
the spirit of one's ancestors, inherited as race 
experience, or the Spirit of Life, fundamental 
to all mankind and to all environment ? 

Let us choose now with which Spirit we 
mean to ally ourselves. Shall it be the race 
spirit, or the Creative Spirit that made the 
race possible ? We may have open suggestions 
day by day that would lead us right away from 
the Most High. Let us keep the mind close to 
the Heavenly Father within, walk steadily in 
the Way until the immediate temptation is 
over. Now, our choice has been made to trust 
the Heavenly Father while we are coming to 
know Him, and by that choice we may hope to 
protect ourselves from going over to the antith- 
esis of the Great Spirit, and from allowing 
ourselves to be possessed by the race belief in 
human heredity. So long as the mind is fixed 
on the Divine Spirit one is immune from catch- 
ing the spirit of the times, when so many are 
running to and fro, worshipping false gods. 

Mind has direct connection subjectively with 
Infinite-Life. It is the privilege of man to 
extend this association into the self-conscious 
offices of the mind, by asking day by day for 



TRUSTING IN THEE 87 

the bread of Knowledge which is the mind's 
life. If there were not some degree of Knowl- 
edge coming through the agency of the mind, 
man would not be differentiated from the ani- 
mals. Animals are not equipped for Knowl- 
edge-life. So far as we can deduce from ob- 
serving them, they have inherited the instinct 
sufficient for their needs and prowl about pro- 
viding for them. The consciousness of the 
animal is limited to that which comes through 
the organs of sense. It has a feeling for en- 
vironment, but has no office of thought, reason 
or judgment. Left to itself in wild country, 
its instincts answer the purpose of providing 
its needs. 

We have a Heavenly Father with us which 
the mind can perceive, providing everything 
for us whether related to the mind or the body. 
What the organism needs in order to live and 
continue to live, is the Knowledge of Principle' 
by means of which it was founded. 

Knowledge is the stimulant and food of the 
mind, — the stimulant to encourage it to gain 
more and more Knowledge, — and the food in 
that it comes directly from Principle by which 
man is being unconsciously lived. 



88 mind's silent paktner 

When you enter into the meditation " Trust- 
ing in Thee, my Heavenly Father Within, I 
have nothing to fear, every good thing to ex- 
pect," let the mind be perfectly clear that it is 
looking back to the Heavenly Father which 
produced it, and which called its working 
organisation into being. 

The race father-mother is a means to an end 
provided by Life while a man's destiny is being 
fulfilled of coming to a knowledge of his Royal 
Inheritance. If this be recognised and we 
abide in the feeling of our meditation, we shall 
have a vivid consciousness of that which is 
transcendentally greater than our race-legacy 
and this will mean that we are growing into a 
higher order of consciousness. In proportion 
as this new order of feeling obtains, will we be 
relieved of the ignorant emotions of human 
subjectivity which are harbingers of evil and 
death. A new order of thought will be con- 
ceived by the mind, and progress made along 
the Way of Life-Eternal. 

Listen to the optimism of the meditation: 
"Trusting in Thee my Heavenly Father, — my 
Instinctive Omniscient Life within, I have 
nothing to fear, every good thing to ex- 



TRUSTING IN THEE 89 

pect." Trust, hold the mind in touch with its 
Within. During such association nothing can 
be brought forth but what is of Life Itself. 
Instinctive Omniscient Life will thus blossom 
out ultimately into Divine Manhood on earth. 

We might quicken and emphasize our ideas 
by an illustration. The one order of our con- 
sciousness known as electricity, in passing 
through one mechanism, will show forth as 
light, through another as heat, another as 
motive power, and so on. These varied instru- 
ments are required to bring its different modes 
of expression into practical use. So it is with 
consciousness passing through the sensorium. 
It has the five mechanisms of sense through 
which to contact the over-soul, to satisfy its 
requirements for living the objective life. 

The one order of human consciousness in 
passing through the five mechanisms of the 
sensorium, appears as hearing, sight, taste, 
smell, and touch, all developed out of that 
within of which we are unconscious, but apart 
from the mind, their Master, through knowl- 
edge, all is darkness. 

Trusting in the Heavenly Father is not 
enough. It is a provision by the way, that we 



90 mind's silent partner 

may not fall whilst coming to the light of 
knowing our Omniscient Source within. Ac- 
cordingly we must trust while walking alone 
by the secondary light of sense albeit towards 
Knowing. 

Trusting in Thee, my Heavenly Father, my 
Instinctive Omniscient Life within, I have 
nothing to fear, every good thing to expect. 



"LET THY WILL BE MY WILL; A WELL- 
SPRING OF OMNISCIENCE SPRINGING FORTH 
INTO EVERLASTING ETERNAL LIFE WITHIN ME." 

In meditation the mind is turned back to the 
Creative Spirit, to the Within whence it came. 
For the most part, while the Creative Spirit 
has been perceived in the abstract, conscious- 
ness of It has not been disclosed to the mind. 
The mind has not been inducted into a work- 
ing knowledge of It, so as to co-operate with 
and enjoy Its perennial resources in the daily 
task of consciousness-making. 

"We therefore turn the mind back to what 
we have conceived to be before mind was, and 
say to that First to which the mind is sec- 



LET THY WILL BE MY WILL 91 

ond; "Let Thy Spirit be my Spirit, a well- 
spring of Omniscience springing forth into 
everlasting Eternal Life within me. ' ' " Ever- 
lasting' ' refers to duration of time and sense, 
"Eternal" refers to the inherent essential 
quality of Omniscience, to mental life, in- 
dependent of the adjuncts of sense. 

In our meditation we are looking within for 
the connection to be made with the Principle 
of our existence by which we live. We expect 
to gain a moiety of Knowledge for daily use, 
enjoyment and regeneration. We desire to 
get a picture before the mind of that which is 
Eeal in the sense of being unfailing. 

There is that in relation to the mind which is 
temporary. It answers a purpose for the 
time, and passes as regards its further useful- 
ness. The race lives in this realm which 
is continually passing. This is our present 
state of self-consciousness, and yet we can 
discern clearly that on the subjective side of 
the mind, there is that which is to be depended 
upon, which can be relied upon with the 
knowledge that consciousness thus founded 
will endure. It is to this Source that our 
meditation is directed. Principle is not given 



92 mind's silent partner 

to man for his use in working out the prob- 
lems of environment only, but as his Resource 
for the fulfilling of his eternal destiny in self- 
conscious existence. 

"Is-ness" is Being, whereas that which is 
accomplished by means of the "Is-ness" 
merely exists as a dependency of the mind. 

The mind is a product of Principle, as is also 
the body, though the nature of mind and body 
are very different. We know that mind is of 
a nature corresponding to Omniscience from 
which it came forth. So everything that may 
be said to be First, such as Creative Power, be- 
fore the creation of anything, as we count crea- 
tion, belongs to the ' Is-ness.' Any informa- 
tion that the mind gets from ' Is-ness' is relia- 
ble. When this information comes into the 
mind, the mind is in a state of self -conscious- 
ness which is an exact image and likeness of its 
Principle. Thus the Principle of mind and of 
man is the same, only that Principle, through 
man, gives of Its qualities to the mind at the 
mind's desire. The self -consciousness thus 
given is to be depended on. 

If one desires to sift out what is ultimately 
to pass away from that which is sure to remain 



LET THY WILL BE MY WILL 93 

in existence and to subsist on Principle, one 
has only to keep right on along the pathway we 
have tried to make clear. 

Now each mental organism has inherited a 
physical one. The mental organisation is con- 
nected involuntarily with its Principle of Crea- 
tion for mental and bodily upkeep during the 
time that the mind remains unconscious of 
its Source in Principle. This connection 
established in us, of which we do not experience 
a self-consciousness, must be brought above the 
threshold into the offices of the mind, so that 
the mind may enjoy its Inheritance from the 
deathless Principle of Creation. 

As we have said, mind also relates to that 
which is transitional and which, in due time, 
passes. At one stage of our existence we are 
under a belief that we hold true ideas regard- 
ing G-od, man and things. Then our views 
change, and the opinions previously held go 
for ever, because we have arrived at a higher 
source of information. That of which one was 
ignorant yesterday, one becomes acquainted 
with to-day. Yet this relative ignorance was 
useful in its way; it represented an order of 
consciousness that one must pass through. 



94 mind's silent partner 

Throughout the ages whole systems of 
thought have thus changed. They had their 
use in their time, but are gone because it is the 
nature of the mind to advance in its order of 
self-consciousness. 

In so far as we have received the Spirit of 
the Principle of our existence into our self- 
consciousness, we are safe as to health and wis- 
dom. To that extent our various movements 
of life will bring exactly the right feeling and 
this feeling will be expressed in conditional 
health and wisdom. 

"Let Thy will be my will; a well-spring of 
Omniscience springing forth into everlasting 
Eternal Life within me." 



"let the infinite spirit within me come 

forth" 



In the necessary endeavor to define clearly 
the relations existing between ourselves and 
our world, a familiar comparison may here 
serve us. The sun in the objective world, 
answers to Knowledge in the Subjective Causal 
Realm. The moon may be taken to represent 



LET THE INFINITE SPIRIT COME FORTH 95 

the secondary state in which Knowledge is not 
yet known. The sun corresponds to life in the 
objective over-soul world; Knowledge corre- 
sponds to Life in the pure mental world. The 
moon only gives a secondary light that is bor- 
rowed from the sun ; similarly the light of the 
mind through the senses, is secondary. At 
present, not knowing the sun, the mind is led 
by the light of sense, the moon, since we are 
acquainted with objects whilst not knowing 
their source. 

Mind and Life are positive and primary. 
Body and sense-perception are secondary. 
The moon reflects light which is not its own. 
The world as we perceive it is seen by mind 
through the secondary channels of sense while 
as yet we are without knowledge of the pri- 
mary Causal-Realm which is the sun of the 
secondary realm. 

We know nothing of our existence in that 
realm below the threshold of sense-perception. 
Yet, from this Causal-Realm we have sprung, 
and are continued in existence. Still, with all 
our potentiality and equipment for living a 
life of Knowledge, we have continued in our 
objective ' % moon ' ' state of existence. By culti- 



96 mind's silent partner 

vating intuitional or transcendental Knowl- 
edge of our kingdom of Life within, we shall 
be able to interpret our environment in our 
secondary state wisely and well, rendering 
righteous judgment, thus, living a vital emo- 
tional life. At the quickened desire of the 
mind, in emergencies, the Life-Principle 
will continue' to give birth to divine Life- 
images which the mind will interpret into its 
own language of Knowledge-Emotion to meet 
the situations that arise on the way of coming 
to know "The Father dwelling within.' ' 

"We have little ken of the realm whence 
things of our sense environment are drawn. 
Much less do we know concerning our own 
Causal Realm wherein is Eternal-Life. 

Perhaps it is now time to speak somewhat 
more fully of the secondary realm wherein 
man endeavors to exist, and to continue to 
live, while not in self-conscious touch with his 
vital Source. 

What we call matter is nothing more than a 
sensuous state of consciousness. By various 
states of mind-consciousness, there has been 
built up a contact with what appears to be 
environment, known as the universe in ob- 



LET THE INFINITE SPIRIT COME FORTH 97 

jectification. It, however, is nothing apart 
from man. It is of the Kingdom of the mind. 
It has taken mind to cognise it, even in its 
objective sense. 

This world, this planet that we call our 
world, was once in a state of fervent heat. 
Scientists have learned by various modes of 
reasoning according to sense, that it was once 
in a molten state. 

From a gaseous state, the earth elements 
slowly cooled down into denser forms, until, 
looking at it at the present time, it is seen to be 
in that state of chemical metabolism in which 
all that springs from it is resolved back to it. 

As individuals we inherit the earth ; we carry 
a bit of it around with us as our bodies which 
indeed consist of transmutations of the prod- 
ucts of the ground. Equally do we inherit 
the Principle of the chemical elements, which 
have been translated and transformed by the 
instruments of sense from the Infinite Eealm 
and made to appear in the finite language of 
objects. Man is becoming more than a Sub- 
jective member of Principle, being started on 
his way to the knowing of himself as the active 
Partner of Principle. 



98 mind's silent partner 

Instinctive Man has brought to birth from 
Principle, the mind, with its nine faculties to 
the end of self-conscious existence. We thus 
inherit the manifesting province, or in objec- 
tive terms, the chemical elements of Omnis- 
cience as well as Omniscience in its direct rela- 
tion to the mind. 

Creative Knowledge has been inherited by 
the mind for use in the calling forth of experi- 
ence from its great Subjectivity, as well as for 
the gaining of experience through the senses. 

The mind is equipped with Principle for a 
successful struggle with its environment, this 
being the first necessity it has to deal with. 
The mind is also able, when feeding directly 
and continuously from its Source, to remain in 
self -consciousness of that Causal Eealm upon 
which it may draw voluntarily and perennially. 

As we have said, there is Principle as a 
whole, and there is Instinctive Generic Man, 
which includes the potentiality of all individ- 
ual manhood. Through this instinct of Crea- 
tive Knowledge we have the potentiality of 
intuitional knowledge to use creatively in ful- 
filling our destiny of knowing the Most High, 
— our Causal Eealm. 



LET THE INFINITE SPIRIT COME FORTH 99 

[Principle, being absolute and complete in 
Itself, can ever give birth through the agency 
of Its offspring, the mind, to whatsoever is in 
likeness of Its Substance. 

To this end the mind makes use of the mani- 
festing elements of the Knowledge-Principle. 
These manifesting chemical elements are 
known to us as material, when translated by 
the mind into terms of sense, the only state of 
consciousness it has yet experienced, — but 
when viewed by the mind in its Causal Realm 
of existence, the chemical elements are real 
and eternal, the resources of Principle for ac- 
tivities within Itself. Their office in sense is 
to manifest, and to do the mind's behests in 
any form of manifestation. 

These elements take on impressions of the 
mind and are subservient to it, whether the 
impressions be of sense or of the Spirit of 
Knowledge. According to the impressions 
lodged in terms of vibration in those peculiar 
chemical elements which make up the cell-life 
of the brain record, is the consciousness of the 
individual. We have looked upon these ele- 
ments as matter, but even in their secondary 
state to us, they are not material. 



100 mind's silent partner 

You are to me what I perceive you to be. 
I may be. deceived. You are surely different 
from my intellectual judgment of you. Judg- 
ment according to appearance is not righteous 
judgment. 

Since Principle contains within Itself In- 
stinctive Manhood and the potentiality of 
mind, the manifesting elements, by which ex- 
perience is perpetuated, are real and eternal in 
their primary realm. What is there, then, 
that is unreal or secondary % The soul is that 
which is material and transitory, a means of 
transition from one state to another, though 
it is the medium of attaining to that which is 
real. 

The emotional life of soul is relative; it 
answers a magnificent purpose for a time. 
If during that allotted time we do not use our 
opportunity to become conscious of our Causal 
Eealm, but continue to live alone in the ficti- 
tious state of sense, then, whether we enjoy 
ourselves or not the end is the same, fate, 
rather than eternal Destiny. 

The emotional impressions received on the 
sensitised cells of the brain-record are material 



LET THE INFINITE SPIRIT COME FORTH 101 

when they are the product of the environ- 
mental life, simply because they spring from a 
mental touch with the object only, instead of 
first springing, as they should, from the 
mind's conscious contact with the Spirit of 
Knowledge, when their true mental equiva- 
lent will be revealed. 

The soul is material as the Old Testament 
implies. The second Chapter of Genesis is a 
statement according to sense, that is, as seen 
through the lens of self -consciousness founded 
on objective life and judgment; whereas the 
first 'Chapter, is a statement of man's exist- 
ence in the abstract, in Principle. "The Lord 
God made man out of the dust of the ground,' 7 
that is, Instinctive Man created a mind 
through which to make transition from subjec- 
tivity to self -consciousness ; a mind equipped 
with adjuncts of sense and chemical elements 
of Principle, in an organism, as a medium to 
make this transition. To this new creation 
that which is Subject appears to be object. 
The mind, knowing nothing of its origin, is, 
for the time, dependent upon the objective 
world and through the partaking of food, the 



102 mind's silent partner 

product of the elements, seeming to arise out 
of the ground, believes itself to be formed of 
the dust of the ground. 

Perfect man exists in Principle, ready to 
come forth in terms of self-consciousness 
when induced by the mind, to do so through 
the process of regeneration. 

There is a certain way followed by the race 
to produce human beings and similarly there 
is a certain way of gestation for the bringing 
forth of Divine Manhood. 

The spiritual way is for the mind to seek its 
Causal Realm for its own purpose of attain- 
ing consciousness of its divine self -hood. The 
Knowledge thus gained finds its lodgment in 
the pneumatological record. In other words, 
the Builder Within uses the manifesting ele- 
ments of Principle to call into existence a new 
order of consciousness through words provided 
by the Spirit of Knowledge, and their spirit 
is stored in the library of the brain. 

Now objective man would be spiritual all the 
way through in his perceptions and experi- 
ences, could he start at once in the gestation 
of his self -consciousness from the Subjectivity 
of Divine Manhood. But he must needs pass 



LET THE INFINITE SPIRIT COME FORTH 103 

through the experiences of sense first in order 
to make his transmutation, — a kind of chro- 
matic scale process. The first activities of the 
mind of the individual are, therefore, stim- 
ulated through the observations of sense activ- 
ities. These observations are reduced to their 
ultimate emotion and stored day by day in the 
individual's record of existence as a living 
soul. 

This is not saying that the soul is worthless, 
since it is the medium of transition from lesser 
to greater possessions in terms of spiritual 
existence, while the lesser soul-record remains 
intact. It is just as necessary as is the chrys- 
alis state to the butterfly, but the mind must 
cease having its offices closed by default at its 
chrysalis stage, and continue mental gestation 
from the Omniscience of Principle to the 
destiny of Eternal Manhood-Consciousness. 

Let us remember that the soul is constituted 
of human emotion which springs from objec- 
tive resources, which sources are to the mind 
as the moon is to the sun. We must change in 
our conceptions until we recognise that the 
Eeality of existence is vested in Principle It- 
self, and that Principle is the vital Knowledge- 



104 mind's silent partner 

food of the mind, much as the chemical ele- 
ments in their material state, constitute food 
for the body. The mind lives by Truth alone, 
and its bread, the Spirit of Knowledge, will 
automatically keep the offices in perfect order, 
day by day, transmuting the elements into such 
form as may be necessary. 

The soul represents ignorant emotions 
though they may be most intelligent from the 
standpoint of sense environment. But soul 
emotions never touch Life because they are 
secondary, of sense, not of Knowledge. 
We enjoy normal soul emotions since they are 
intended to make our consciousness good and 
normal, but while enjoying the ties of con- 
sanguinity and affinity in this beautiful world, 
we should make provision for our second birth 
into the Spirit of Knowledge. We must be 
born into other reaches of consciousness which 
ante-date the state of sense and which throw 
a flood-light of wisdom on the activities of ob- 
jective life. Man is not born all at once into 
his kingdom of Knowledge, any more than he 
was born all at once into his education of sense. 
He must daily seek his bread of Knowledge, 
because any happiness of the senses alone 



LET THE INFINITE SPIRIT COME FORTH 105 

leaves him in want. There is a great deal to 
understand before the mind, confounding the 
moon-life with the sun-lif e, is disenchanted of 
its false ideas. The soul yields relative emo- 
tions that are good temporarily until one 
evolves into better ones, when these emotions, 
born of the mind's contact with environment 
of sense, give place to emotions born of the 
Spirit, Light comes into the mind, and the 
soul gradually exchanges its relative existence 
for that of Eternal Life through knowing God. 
The time to begin this process is now, since the 
Way is made plain. 

[What we call chemical elements may be 
recognised by the mind as they exist in the 
Spirit of Knowledge before being transformed 
into terms of sense cognition. The conscious- 
ness of the mind as now housed in bodily pre- 
sentment need not fail or break. 

As ice changes from solid to fluid, and from 
fluid to gas, so the mind, in knowing its Prin- 
ciple, is privileged ultimately to translate the 
elements back to their original mental terms. 
In this primal state the Man-Entity shall 
fashion them item by item, pari passu with a 
corresponding change of the primitive tern- 



106 mind's silent partner 

porary structure, until there shall be formed 
"a fit temple" for the indwelling of the in- 
dividual, ultimated, Self-conscious Man, still 
in his secondary presentment. 

We are accepting Omniscient Principle as 
the ground of our existence, in distinction from 
that of the endless chain of race-births with 
its race conception of God. The race has been 
all oblivious of Man and God within, as por- 
trayed by the transcendental inspiration of 
Scripture. Humanity's conception of God is 
anthropomorphic and objective, but inspira- 
tion has portrayed Him in purely mental 
terms which we are following. In our in- 
herited Creative Principle lie all the modes of 
Being as set forth in Scripture and in our 
teaching. This Principle is not only our Crea- 
tive working Power, but is our very Life, our 
one Source of fundamental existence. 

"The Kingdom of God is within you," "The 
Kingdom of Heaven is at hand," "Let the 
Infinite Spirit within me come forth." 



FAITH IN OMNISCIENT GOODNESS 107 



"FAITH IN THE OMNISCIENT GOODNESS 
WITHIN ME" 



In our meditations we do not declare our 
wants in the human sense, we keep impersonal ; 
the purpose is to enter into the divine side of 
our natures, which supplies all human needs. 

The naked mind speaks, as if it were aware 
of the imminancy of its coming into Life. 

In our ordinary way of living, if the mind 
is content to slumber through the years in 
sense, we lose sight of our divine nature. 
From the standpoint of the senses we know 
the sources of our emotions which are engen- 
dered day by day from human experience, but 
what the body or matter is in reality, when 
reduced to its primary mental equivalent, we 
do not know. The little we think we know is 
but in terms of sense. There is a further ex- 
perience to be known than that gained while 
dealing with human emotion, and having de- 
veloped sufficiently to recognise the possibility 
of knowing our Source, there must now be a 
change in our activities if we would attain 



108 MIND'S SILENT PARTNER 

that experience. First, the mind must have 
such a belief in its perception of Truth, that 
it will be inspired to seek education from the 
Spirit of Knowledge within. This Knowledge 
is not of the senses. Our senses are nothing 
in and of themselves. That which produced 
the organism originally, remains to give men- 
tal light to sense observations. The senses 
must be put in their true place as adjuncts to 
the mind, just as the electric bulb is adjunc- 
tive to the power that passes through it. 

The mind is the means of establishing con- 
nection with our Principle, and the mind needs 
to get that order of faith which shall call forth 
Illumination from It, — that is, experience in 
a certain order of Goodness not recognised in 
mere human consciousness. As one begins to 
love That which is giving not only sense con- 
ceptions of goodness, day by day, but also the 
substantial likeness of Goodness Itself in 
terms of experience, there will be no need to 
compel attention to the Infinite, any more than 
there is when one falls in love in a personal 
sense. 

The love called forth by the mind's contact 
with the Creative Substance within, will bring 



FAITH IN OMNISCIENT GOODNESS 109 

out an order of goodness and of mental emolu- 
ments generally, with which the feeling in- 
duced by the mind's contact with environment 
utterly fails to compare. 

" Faith in the Omniscient Goodness within 
me." This is a great meditation for produc- 
ing involuntary self-control. 

Just give attention to the repetition of the 
words, not as if you were telling beads or 
counting figures, but say them with belief and 
expectancy in your growing faith. 

The Master said that there is one Good — God 
only. The personality of the speaking man, 
Jesus, was good because He had kept the law 
both in its spirit and its letter all the way 
through, and fulfilled the conditions for 
Spiritual Manhood. We can perceive by the 
intellect that our great Within is Good. Now 
one may use that which is good unintelligently, 
not in accordance with its own nature, were it 
self-acting. You can use Principle ignorantly 
and foolishly, and, in common speech even 
wickedly, though it Itself is Goodness. One 
can construct for bad ends through knowing 
Principle just in relation to the construction 
of things, and without sufficient development 



110 mind's silent partner 

of spiritual Knowledge to invent, or create for 
good uses. When you come to know Goodness 
or (Principle properly in your emotional life, 
all Its outworkings are good. When It ans- 
wers your call into self -consciousness and you 
are intimate with what is ALL within you, 
your knowledge will be a perfect likeness of the 
Substantial Goodness of which it is the mental 
equivalent. We use Principle and obtain 
great benefits in our environmental realm, but 
since we fail where we ourselves are con- 
cerned, body and soul, it seems as though our 
environment were of more consequence than 
we are ourselves. Our knowledge of the Man- 
hood Principle for use in sciences and arts is 
highly developed. Why is not our knowledge 
of It in self-consciousness more developed? 
Because we have not realised the Principle of 
man and the (Principle of things to be one and 
the same. It is one, but the Spirit of mental 
life has not been developed in us. If Man- 
hood Principle is the foundation and super- 
structure of our self-consciousness, in the 
same proportion as it is for use in our envi- 
ronment, we should have a horror of making 
use of It to unworthy ends, such as the de- 



FAITH IN OMNISCIENT GOODNESS 111 

vising of implements of war and destruc- 
tion. 

There is a great Realm within us all that has 
not been tapped. 

In our present state of evolution we could 
imagine that the Creator was wiser in prepar- 
ing us to meet and struggle successfully with 
our environment than He was in endowing us 
with the wisdom to continue and abide as 
masters in and over it, since our inventions, 
clothed with the elements, last for ages, whilst 
man, who has called them forth, has been 
obliged to surrender to his environment in a 
few decades at the best. 

It would thus seem as though our self -con- 
sciousness were founded less securely than are 
the sciences that we are acquainted with. Yet 
when we invent and create things, we know 
that our faculties within are greater than the 
things we evolve and use them for. 

Even our undeveloped self -consciousness has 
been evolved by Principle. The scientific 
world vainly seeks in the chemical realm for 
the means of bolstering up the activities of the 
Life-Principle which founded the chemicals 
themselves. 



112 mind's silent partner 

The same Principle which is behind science 
has done all for us, and in order to reap like 
emoluments for the enlightenment and stabil- 
ity of man himself, it is necessary to induce 
Principle to that end. 

It has proved futile to work by the secondary 
knowledge of the intellect, — which is of sense — 
with the secondary elements of embodiment — 
the universe — either to heal or even to prolong 
life beyond the usual allotted years. It seems 
stupid not to turn to the Source Within whence 
our self-conscious life took its rise, to that In- 
stinctive Wisdom of Principle out of which 
both mind and body were created and which 
Words of Prayer will evoke. It has proved 
the one Source whence proceeds our self-con- 
scious life, the Wisdom that keeps us while we 
sleep, which constructs and maintains mind 
and body without our taking thought. Scien- 
tists are endeavoring to make life indefinitely 
long, if at all, with the things made by Princi- 
ple rather than by the acknowledgment and 
use of the Source of all Itself. To get self- 
consciousness of our Principle is to know Life, 
and to have boundless, unlimited life. 

The mind has beneath it a whole vista of 



FAITH IN OMNISCIENT GOODNESS 113 

knowledge that may be brought forth into self- 
conscious terms, a knowledge of the great 
Spirit by which our heart beats. What we 
need is so to awaken to the Presence of our 
great Principle Within, that we may keep in 
touch and in harmony with It, and be able to 
unite with It in our self-conscious activities. 
It is more important that we get a quickening 
view of the Great Within than to possess "all 
the kingdoms of the world and the glory of 
them, ' ' — and the trouble of them. That which 
is doing vital things for us in the body is 
doing vital things for us in the mind. The 
difficulty is, that it is all below the threshold of 
our usual experiences. 

When, however, we are able to realise these 
vital processes through our meditations, when 
we begin to know the Principle in our feeling 
natures, the bodily representation of the 
changes for good within us assuredly follow. 
The explanation of this is that the blood, con- 
sisting of elements of earth brought together 
by the Principle governing the chemical proc- 
esses within, becomes the bearer of the chemi- 
cal equivalent of the psychical being that is 



114 mind's silent partner 

built up day by day to represent the mental 
and emotional states of the individual. As one 
becomes intuitive of the Instinctive Man- 
Knowledge within, a translation in terms of 
blood and bodily presentment follows, when 
all the terrible revelations disclosed by bac- 
teriology and microscopy and other research 
will pass away as transcendental states come 
forth. There is no reason why we should not 
grow to a transcendental knowledge of Life, 
just as certain people are born with an intui- 
tive knowledge in general or in particular 
branches of art and science. 

The realm within us is Infinite Goodness, 
and we need faith in It to bring It to our use 
for all purposes so that we may not blunder. 
" Faith in the Infinite Goodness Within me." 
So far as we know none but the Master ever 
had self-conscious transcendental Knowledge 
of Spiritual Life, which provides knowledge on 
other planes. If the mind is illuminated with 
the Spirit of Man as He is in Principle, then 
the Master within will cause an exact fac- 
simile of the Infinite Goodness within, in 
bodily and environmental conditions. 



PRINCIPLE OF MY EXISTENCE 115 

This wonderful kingdom of the mind will 
ultimately open up by means of the Words sent 
down the ages from the Master Who spoke 
them, as they arose from His own Subjectivity 
within. These Words are the connecting link 
between the sense life and the inner Life. 

"That I may have Faith in the Infinite 
Goodness within me." 



"THAT MY SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS MAY BE 
OF THE PRINCIPLE OF MY EXISTENCE" 



The way leading back to our Man-Principle 
is through use of words embodying the Crea- 
tive Emotion that Principle stands for. In- 
tellect cannot create any living thing. Noth- 
ing can be done without Principle, which is 
the Life of the mind, and is what the mind is 
intended to handle. Principle is substantial 
emotional Life, the emotional Substance- 
Knowledge. The mind is the medium through 
which we may reach this naked Knowledge- 
Life-Substance, and our Christ is the connect- 
ing link. 



116 mind's silent partner 

"Without Me ye can do nothing." "Me" 
embraces both Principle and Its activity. 
Christ is the active element of the Life within, 
so that as far as self-consciousness is con- 
cerned, we can do nothing without Christ, the 
working power of Gk)d. 

"Be still and know that I within thee am 
Christ." 

We are not speaking of Christ in theolog- 
ical terms. Christ is no personal senti- 
mental, ideal. All the sentiment is on the 
human side. Christ is the Manhood of God. 

"Be still and know that I am Christ, the 
likeness of Omniscient Principle within thee." 

This is not the utterance of what we usually 
call ourselves, it is the Christ speaking through 
the mind. We must take it to ourselves per- 
sonally and in this way learn, at first hand, of 
our subjective Principle within. 

In order that we may call forth in feeling 
the message of the Christ within, the mind 
must be stilled of its kaleidoscopic activities 
according to sense. An autocratic, dominat- 
ing stillness is not what is meant. 

The necessary kind of stillness may be de- 



PRINCIPLE OF MY EXISTENCE 117 

veloped by words of Principle which will still 
the mind in due course, if we persist in our 
purpose. This persistence may be cultivated 
by practice. First the mind must believe in its 
Principle, and, secondly, must learn to com- 
municate with It, not only to intellectual ends, 
or to assert theoretical possibilities, but to call 
from the Instinctive Man-Life within intui- 
tional Knowledge of Itself. 

It is necessary to know Life in order to live 
wisely and continuously. The mind must 
learn therefore, to associate voluntarily with 
its subjective Source until such association 
shall become involuntary. The words of our 
meditation constitute the means of doing this. 

It is one thing to accept this teaching intel- 
lectually as true, quite another to engage the 
heart in its practice. Instinct of the Spirit 
will be born into terms of intuition, if the 
mind's equipment is put to work in seeking 
to know of its Principle. 

The turning back of the mind for its daily 
sustenance to the Spirit by virtue of which it 
exists will ultimately bring about its second 
birth, into the kingdom of Omniscience, in dis- 



118 mind's silent partner 

tinction from its first birth into the kingdom 
of sense. The mind must, by its own activity, 
sow the seeds for its second birth. It must 
prepare the mental soil and in it plant words 
that have ascended out of Principle. As the 
words yield up their spirit in growth, they 
will establish a spiritual connection between 
the mind and its Principle, and the mind will 
be feeding from its Source as the body is fed 
from the elements, its source, the ground. 

Since you have decided to speak the words, 
insist that your mind shall continue to abide in 
them. Should wandering thoughts arise do 
not give place to them but continue steadily 
keeping the mind to its purpose of repeating 
the words. You should continue repeating the 
words in order that their spirit may be de- 
livered from Principle into the self-conscious- 
ness of the mind, and become recorded in terms 
of brain-cells. Though it takes a long time 
before you learn to be still in meditation, keep 
on practicing, for each time you repeat the 
words some little bit more is achieved. 

The soul is as material as the body, for it 
is the concensus of feeling of human experi- 



PRINCIPLE OF MY EXISTENCE 119 

ence derived through the medium of the senses, 
recorded in cells constituting their life, their 
order of intelligence. Every thought causes 
molecular movement in the brain-cells, and 
when emotion runs high, new brain-cells are 
born or cells already born are fitted to incar- 
nate the new order of feeling. 

In ordinary habit feeling spends itself in the 
process of becoming thought, and, should this 
occur in a meditation all that remains is the 
memory of the thought in the intellectual office 
instead of a record of spiritual feeling. The 
object of meditation is to establish a store of 
feeling of a divine order. 

"I am the Manhood Spirit of Omniscient 
Principle within thee." 

These words again, planted in the soil of the 
mind, bring forth their fruit into self-con- 
sciousness. In repeating them, imagine that 
they come from the same realm in you as that 
which constituted the Divine Nature of Jesus, 
His individual Christhood. 

The expressed Christhood of Jesus grounded 
in His Indwelling Christ, had the same roots 
that are in us. Each human being has That 



120 mind's silent partner 

within him which will preach the Gospel di- 
rectly to him from the Life within. Except 
for His Within, their Source, Jesus could not 
have spoken His words. The feeling had to 
be within before it could burst forth into 
words, and the words, taking their rise in the 
Christ within, are everlasting and Eternal. 



"ask and ye shall receive, seek and 

ye shall find, knock and it shall be 

opened unto you" 



There are those who do not consciously 
desire the Highest, but all would desire to 
desire It, did they know of It. Let these words 
teach us how to ask. "Ask and ye shall re- 
ceive, Seek and ye shall find, Knock and it shall 
be opened unto you." 

Thus speaks the great Within through your 
individual Christ to your little beginning, and 
gradually It can preach the whole Gospel to 
you if you will persevere. 

Have you asked % Then you have received. 
Just as the sap is stored up to make the flower, 



ASK, AND YE SHALL RECEIVE 121 



and as personal consciousness collects to form 
the soul, so is this greater feeling coming into 
the record of the brain, as day by day we con- 
tinue to ask and receive, seek and find, knock 
and so gain access. 

There is always an answer, negative or posi- 
tive, to desire, and if your desire has been for 
what is eternal then you have received it in 
proportion as you have asked. You have be- 
come educated to receive what you ask of 
eternal things. You may have believed, you 
may have felt, you may have been inspired, 
but conception does not take place in the intel- 
lect. Intellectual belief is only a beginning. 
The belief has to take fire, and the record you 
have gradually stored up will become fired 
slowly or suddenly just in the proportion that 
you are able to bear it. 

Learn by abiding in the great spiritual 
words. If you are going to wait for fate or 
evolution to lift you, there is no use in asking. 
If you desire to know the divine Manhood- 
Spirit here and now, as the Master said we 
might, meditation is the way of knocking at 
the door of the Spirit. Christ within will 



122 mind's silent partner 

teach you. The words will open the door, so 
that you may be taught directly from the 
Spirit within if you knock every day and teach 
the mind to expect an answer. By our words 
we are getting our conviction of Truths lodged 
in our minds and preparing them for the birth 
of our Christs. If you could catch this con- 
nection between the mind and its Principle the 
fire would be kindled and would never go out. 
There would be no dissolution of the continuity 
of self -consciousness. 

The "living bread' ' of the mind comes 
directly from its Source — the Spirit of Knowl- 
edge, the great Omniscience, inherited by all. 

This steady course of illumination consti- 
tutes divine healing when ultimated in com- 
plete regeneration. As one is being made 
whole in this real sense, one will become out- 
wardly healed also. In psychological healing, 
one often needs to be healed, as it is called, 
over and over again, but spiritual healing 
gradually does away with the tendency to 
untoward emotions and therefore the liability 
to illness is steadily diminished. Jesus said: 
"Thy faith hath made thee whole" and did 



ASK, AND YE SHALL RECEIVE 123 

instantaneous healing, but there is no evidence 
that the people healed were regenerated. 
Jesus also tau'ght this wonderful way of re- 
generation, namely, of abiding in the word. 
Whether He, by a possible unusual nativity, 
through an unaccountable idiosyncracy of or- 
ganization, knew the way for His own regen- 
eration intuitionally, without the medium of 
words or whether he accomplished it by abid- 
ing in the words, it matters not. He could but 
teach the Way He saw for the race. 

Let us now abide, 

"Ask and ye shall receive, seek and ye shall 
find, knock and it shall be opened unto you." 

Just imagine there is feeling coming from 
Within from that Source which created and 
which sustains us at the present time, and 
which these words express; that the Key to 
opening up the Kingdom Within is being given 
by its Inhabitant. We should take it as if we 
were being taught the way of entering into the 
enjoyment of our great Inheritance. 

It is impossible that spiritual desires should 
be answered out of the soul or psychical realm, 
since that realm, being not of itself spiritual, 



124 mind's silent partner 

but simply stored with the gleanings of sense, 
can only be the source for interpreting accord- 
ing to ancestral beliefs, psychological specula- 
tions and pronouncements. 

Jesus was a messenger from God. His mes- 
sage was mental and did not relate itself to the 
messenger, Jesus being simply a means of con- 
veyance of the message from the spiritual 
Kingdom of Omniscience within, rather than 
from the psychical kingdom of which the ob- 
jective world is a representation. These are 
the two kingdoms inherited by man. The 
psychical kingdom is a transitional means to 
an end, a means of attaining to that which is 
spiritual and permanent. 

As the chromatic scale in music is to the at- 
taining of the key desired, so is the psycho- 
logical being to the attaining through transi- 
tional consciousness to that state which is fixed 
and ultimate. 

This is as much as to say "if you want any 
spiritual consciousness, the only realm from 
whence it can be obtained is that of the Creator, 
even now with you, but as yet unrecognised, by 
you." 



ASK, AND YE SHALL RECEIVE 125 



If every idle word proceeding from the 
within of the soul is preserved against the day 
of "judgment," how much more shall every 
spiritual word count in that "day." Should 
desire be for the comforts of sense-life first, 
then spiritual desires are blocked, but if the 
desire be first for that which the Spirit affords, 
and you proceed to quicken that desire through 
the process of education from Within, then all 
these emoluments, that we strive for on the 
worldly side, will follow naturally through the 
agency of intuitional Wisdom. 

By desiring, and taking measures to obtain 
worldly things, even though prayer be added 
to your method, you are calling out the emolu- 
ments that only soul can supply. God does 
not traffic primarily in soul emotions and cor- 
responding objects. 

Language is definite. It is representative of 
two sources, which never intermingle. Words 
either represent the Spirit of the Kingdom of 
God or the secondary spirit or kingdom of 
race and individual experience, the soul. 
Their source is known by the order of desire 
that called them forth through the conceiving- 



126 mind's silent partner 

office of the mind into the self -consciousness 
of the individual. 

Now when we want from the soul-store 
emoluments that it can offer to the mind, we do 
not beg and plead, we simply associate the 
mind with the desire and expectancy, and lo ! 
the idea is born into terms of mind to fulfill 
any inner emotion or purpose of outward ex- 
ploit. We simply ask of that kingdom within 
for what we wish to receive by desire rather 
than through the medium of words. 

Thus in this, our meditation, the Master is 
announcing that we approach God's Kingdom 
within just by the same orderly method as we 
are accustomed to use in approaching the 
mind's kingdom of soul: no begging, or plead- 
ing, or " hands on our mouths, and mouths in 
the dust," no crying of " unclean, unclean," 
simply the clear, clean, orderly, normal method 
of daily experience. 

There is one difference, however, in the form 
of asking, since there is no record already 
founded of Life's Kingdom, as there is of soul. 
We are taught by the Master that we are to 
ask in terms of words and, since they are 



THE SPIRIT OF HEALTH 127 

Spirit, and they are Life, to abide in them ; to 
abide in words that represent God, that have 
definite origin in the ' ' within ' ' of Spirit. The 
result indicates that they are word-seeds of 
the Spirit within, which fructify and bear 
fruit of their Origin in the conceiving office 
when the mind broods over them in medita- 
tion. 

By the practice of meditation a spiritual 
record is founded which constitutes the mind's 
possession at hand corresponding to that 
other possession of the mind, the soul rec- 
ord. 

" That I may know in my self-conscious life 
the Spirit of Health from Its Source in Thee, 
my Christ Within. 



>? 



"Thou hast given me my original health; I 
would know how to co-operate with Thee to 
continue it. I come to Thee, my Creative 
Power within, to fulfill the requirements of 
my Being. Thou alone hast given me the tem- 
porary health that I have had, which, through 
lack of co-operation with Thee has been dis- 



128 mind's silent partner 

turbed. I would now receive knowledge of 
Health as It is in Thee, the equivalent of Thy 
pure Subjectivity, in terms of my self-con- 
scious life. 

While I am coming to know Thee, O Christ, 
let me abide in loving trust of Thee, of Thy 
Health-producing Power and Wisdom." 

Another wording of the meditation is : — 

"That I may be inspired of the Spirit of 
Health from Its Source in Thee, my Christ 
within." 

To have conditional health without Knowl- 
edge one is liable to blunder and lose it, as all, 
in some degree, do. 

Our Christ within can only be recognised by 
the world as It blossoms out into personal life. 
One of the smallest but most beneficent signs 
is healing. 

It is good for the mind to hold seriously the 
words of the meditation ; it is evidence to the 
Within, of sincerity and earnestness in abid- 
ing. The natural tendency is to pay attention 
to what is going on in the other offices of the 
mind or in our environment. This, one should 
abstract away from by attending to the words, 



EXPECTANCY 129 

and thus be as much as possible alone with the 
great desire. 

"That I may be inspired of the Spirit of 
Health, from Its Source in Thee, O Christ 
within/ 9 



"divine expectancy" 

It is inspiring to realize how great are the 
possibilities lying back of the revealing words 
of Man-Principle; how the Spiritual Knowl- 
edgeful influence increases in the mind by 
habitual use in meditating; how at first one 
gets bare intellection out of them, but abiding 
in them many times, one feels them mentally, 
and senses them more and more, as they are 
used habitually for ten, fifteen or twenty min- 
utes at a time. 

So also in reading the books; the second 
reading brings a better understanding than the 
first, then each reading develops clearer insight 
and deeper feeling until one begins to get more 
than a sturdy intellectual conviction of the 
truth and power of the teaching, — a distinct 



130 mind's silent partner 

feeling also of reforming activity taking place 
in the mental, sensuous consciousness. 

There is healing in reading the books over 
and over. There is healing in meditation. 
Now let us enter the meditative state with two 
words that have great power to quicken the 
mental consciousness in the way both of heal- 
ing and of illumination. They are, " Divine 
Expectancy." 

I will speak the words several times " Expec- 
tancy, Expectancy, Divine Expectancy, Expec- 
tancy, Expectancy, Divine Expectancy/ ' 

/There is that in you from which a response 
will come and expectancy will fructify in feel- 
ing. 

It is not enough to perceive Truth ; a mode 
of bringing it into action is needed. Intellec- 
tual perception does not produce activity. 
The Man-Instinct of Principle is set in mo- 
tion by active expectancy or belief obtaining 
in the office of self -consciousness. In Divine 
Manhood, the creative element of conscious 
life, there is that which corresponds to what 
we know as Faith, without which nothing can 
be done. 



EXPECTANCY 131 

Now "Expectancy" signifies a certain feel- 
ing that is purely subjective in you at the mo- 
ment, but on speaking the name of that feeling 
you call it into activity. Remember it is the 
name of a definite quality which calls out 
creative action, therefore when you speak the 
name of the feeling, Expectancy, it should be 
called forth into activity in you. We do not 
usually stop to think that the fundamental 
words we speak represent a certain order of 
feeling, and that when we use them they will 
deliver that feeling to him who desires to ex- 
perience the power of them, with all the quali- 
ties of that which is desired. You may be 
lacking in the feeling inherent in the words you 
use, but if you desire to have it, and abide in 
the words, their spirit will be manifested in 
feeling when the mind has become sufficiently 
self-concentrated in the words by their repeti- 
tion with expectancy. 

When in your own feeling you have a quick 
response you will be equipped to induce the 
same feeling in your neighbour. We use great 
words and do not realise the wonders of emo- 
tion hidden in them. The word ' ' Expectancy ' ' 



132 mind's silent partner 

is one of the words of which the feeling has 
never fully been brought to birth, 

" Expectancy, Expectancy, Divine Expec- 
tancy. Let the Expectancy that is in Thee, my 
Life within me, come forth in terms of living 
Knowledge of Thee, Oh Christ, my Life, my 
Great, my All-embracing silent Partner 
within/ ' 

(I am calling forth into my own mental con- 
sciousness this feeling of Divine Expectancy, 
and we are all here with one accord to get a 
new order of feeling, that which the Master 
evidenced, and which is the marvelous Inherit- 
ance of man. Therefore, when I speak the 
words, all of you in proportion to your clear- 
ness of consciousness will get increasing feel- 
ing every moment. 

I have heard of theatrical artists who have 
spent months in practicing the speaking of a 
single sentence that they might be able to give 
just the right feeling to their audience. I do 
not know whether they realized that they were 
bringing the feeling in the words to birth. Yet 
under highly inspirational circumstances that, 



EXPECTANCY 133 

or even greater feeling, would have been in- 
duced involuntarily. 

This " Expectancy" meditation is effective 
when related to that which we wish to bring 
out from the G'reat Within. As feeling is 
quickened it brings regeneration in terms of 
mental record. Kemember, it is always the 
Divine nature that meditates, not the personal. 

Expectancy, Expectancy, Divine Expect- 
ancy, Expectancy, Expectancy, Divine Ex- 
pectancy, 

Let the Expectancy that is in Thee, my Life 
within me, come forth in terms of living 
Knowledge of Thee, in terms of living Love of 
Thee, Oh Christ, my Great, my All-embracing 
silent Partner within. 

Expectancy, Expectancy, Divine Expect- 
ancy, 

Expectancy, Expectancy, Divine Expect- 
ancy, 

Expectancy of Thy Love in my heart, 
Expectancy of my love for Thee, Expectancy 
of Thy Love for me, Expectancy, Divine Ex- 
pectancy, I am all things with Thee, I am 



134 mind's silent partner 

nothing without thee. I acknowledge Thee, O 
my Life within to be all that I am. 

Expectancy, Expectancy, Expectancy of all 
that is within Thee, my Life within me." 



"let the spirit of eternal self- 
consciousness WITHIN ME COME FORTH" 



Desire breeds in the mind according to its 
nature. Mind calls out the activities of its 
Principle voluntarily. On the subjective side 
of mind activities are called out involuntarily. 
Except for the persistent calling of the sub- 
jective office of the mind, waking or sleeping, 
we should lose our consciousness. We need to 
go to the school of the Spirit, the Master 
within, to be tutored by the Subjectivity of 
Manhood, to learn of Its Spirit. With this 
new-born Knowledge, our world of conscious- 
ness of self and its objective complement will 
become the likeness of the only Power which 
can found stable, mental man, and stable world 
conditions in correspondence to him. In Prin- 
ciple or Omniscience lies all that Is. 'Is-ness' 



ETERNAL SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS 135 

is stability, ehangelessness, like the stability of 
the Knowledge-Principle. Now the Knowl- 
edge subjective in Principle needs to be known 
in order that man may be lighted by It in his 
objective offices of sense. 

In The All lies the Power to give birth in 
the mind to pictures of Its own nature in the 
language of mind, pure Emotion, which is 
also extended into the secondary realm of form 
and action. 

The complex mind of man with its nine 
faculties, — perception, imagination, reason, 
judgment, abstraction, memory, aesthetic 
taste, will and intuition, — was potential in 
Principle; but Principle, being subject to 
man's desire, must needs wait for his call to 
give birth to it. The mind's desire in its 
daily activities, calls forth likenesses of Prin- 
ciple to meet its requirements of the inner life 
and outer living. "In my Father's house 
are many mansions." Indeed all the man- 
sions erected on earth, and all the soul- 
mansions, bodies, of the human race, and 
those yet to come of Divine Manhood, have 
Omniscient Principle "to their Father," Pure 



136 mind's silent partner 

Subjectivity, as their original natal Source. 
Nothing can take its rise and come to birth 
without the Creative Life-Emotion as its 
First, be it the good or be it the evil of trans- 
itory human conception. Life must antedate 
all action. 

There is a difference between the inductive 
wisdom of sense and that Wisdom in the mind 
that comes as a likeness of Principle. Wisdom 
is in the mind when the works of science and 
art are brought forth as images. Wisdom 
continues to occupy the mind whilst these im- 
ages are being extended into objective form. 
Likewise Principle is invoked from the sub- 
jective office of the mind for the birth and the 
establishing of the offices of the mind as well 
as for the formation of the entire organisation 
and its upkeep. These creations are real since 
they are but extensions of the likeness of Prin- 
ciple to another plane, namely, that of exist- 
ence, while still, having connection with their 
Source, though the human being is all uncon- 
scious of it. Nothing has left the Original 
Spirit of Omniscience. The potentialities of 
all images ever continue, though their corres- 



ETERNAL SELF-CONSCIOTTSNESS 137 

pondences in objective form are looked upon 
in objective life as the realities. 

Children are being born into the world all 
the time out of and by means of the Principle 
of Omniscience, which man inherits. They 
are called forth from Generic Man in re- 
sponse to desire in the race as instinct of per- 
petuation. Though born into race-life, the 
mental image does not leave its home in the 
mental Subjectivity which responded to the 
call on the involuntary side of the mind. 
Thus is an endless chain of human beings 
born into race-life, with potentialities in their 
chrysalis-existence for divine birth and cor- 
responding re-embodiment whilst living a 
normal life in the present world. 

It is well known that every whit of the body 
is eliminated every few months, new tissues or 
cells taking the place of those cast out. There- 
fore, as the self-consciousness becomes of a 
higher order, the first dimension of the mind's 
record will also be of a higher order; cell- 
bodies being born out of this first dimensional 
or soul-realm and representing it. Thus it is 
clear that a higher order of incarnation will be 



138 mind's silent partner 

in process continually, slow though it may be 
measured by time. 

Mankind has not fulfilled the saying of the 
Master, "Ye must be born again.' ' It has not 
been accepted although He taught the Way. 
It Is The Mind that must enter into the new 
birth. 

As we have seen through the law of incarna- 
tion, in proportion as the mind is born into a 
consciousness of the Great Subjectivity with 
which it is in constant though unconscious, as- 
sociation on its subjective side, will a suitable 
body be forthcoming. Every child is attended 
by its Reality, the Creative-Spirit. It is en- 
dowed with the means of inducing the like- 
ness of its Creative-Spirit into the mind's do- 
main. 

The Master has blazed the way, not only in 
His accomplishment of the new birth, but in 
the clue He gave to the world in the following 
utterances: — "If ye continue in my word then 
are ye my disciples indeed, and ye shall know 
the Truth and the Truth shall make you 
free." "If ye abide in me, and my words 
abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it 



ETERNAL SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS 139 

shall be done unto you." 'The words I speak 
unto you they are Spirit, they are Life." 

All words by which Deity is revealed are 
words of Spirit, are words of Life. Our med- 
itations embrace these revealing words. The 
practice of meditation is the abiding in these 
words. 

The race has reverted to the dust from which 
the body was formed, has fallen like a row of 
bricks while endeavouring to live in the pres- 
ent world without God, without co-operating 
with the Creator within. It is quite clear 
that the pre-self-conscious Entity finds Prin- 
ciple all in all, in the creating of the complex 
mind and founding it in the elements ; in pro- 
viding a body for its use ; in providing offices 
for the maintenance of both mind and body; 
in functioning all the vital offices Itself, 
out of the Principle with which they were 
created. Then, through the office of intui- 
tion provided to that supreme end, It gives 
the mind entire freedom to draw on its own 
Life of Principle without limit. This, indeed, 
the mind has done freely for the exploiting of 
its objective environmental life, for science, 



140 MIND'S SILENT PARTNER 

invention, art, and for personal comfort in its 
over-soul life. 

Let it be realised that mind is grounded in 
Principle, its Source and Continuance ; that it 
is the instrument of Principle, of the Knowl- 
edge-Substance, established by the Man-En- 
tity, through which the eternal Life of Prin- 
ciple may be obtained by conscious man 
through his recognition and desire for It ; that 
his self-conscious Manhood may be grounded 
in Knowledge of his own Principle of Exist- 
ence; that Knowledge of his own Principle 
may bear to his own naked mental self, the 
same relationship that it bears to him reflected 
in his secondary life of sense, in his struggle 
with environment and conquest of it. 

Life places Itself in Its entirety of Prin- 
ciple, with all Its Resources, at the disposal of 
man on the involuntary and unknown side of 
his self-conscious existence. Is it possible 
that Life withholds Knowledge of Itself from 
the voluntary and conscious side of man's 
mind, Its creation, like unto Itself, while giv- 
ing it unlimited access to its Principle through 
the adjunctive mechanism of the senses? Is it 
possible that the Creator within has equipped 



ETERNAL SELF-CONSCIOTJSNESS 141 

conscious man better to struggle with and ex- 
ploit his secondary, dimensional, environment 
successfully, than to sustain his existence in 
health, wisdom, and love in it? No, it is not 
thinkable. The Creator, the Heavenly Father, 
has, indeed, provided a door of connection be- 
tween Itself and the mind, Its representative, 
whereby Its Instinctive Knowledge of the All- 
Father, the Principle, may be induced and 
translated into the self-conscious terms of 
mind. 

Man has but to turn his attention to the 
exploiting of his Kingdom of Omniscience 
within, — his mind's Subjective Natal environ- 
ment, and enjoy the emoluments thereof, in 
terms of enduring Life-consciousness and the 
correspondence of the same in the objective 
state. 

Principle is giving birth to Its likeness in 
the race in order that It may answer the call 
of Its agent, Its forerunner, the mind, estab- 
lished on the self-conscious side of existence. 

If one would live with what some call spirit 
entities on this side or the "other side/' who 
are called by this or that name, this son or 
that daughter, it would be worth while first to 



142 mind's silent partner 

seek to know the Spirit in which all entities 
take their rise, and in which self -conscious- 
ness must be grounded by the mind, in order 
to be enduring and eternal, — namely, the Great 
Sub j ectivity. ' ' To know God is Eternal Life. ' ' 
Without God death is, in a sense, as real as 
birth. But from what we perceive of Life 
there is an opportunity here on earth to bring 
forth a likeness of God in terms of everlasting 
Life, Goodness and Wisdom. Jesus said: 
"Ye must be born again," meaning, you must 
be born into the Kingdom of Knowledge, — 
the mind's instinctive subconscious environ- 
ment or latency. Now in the kingdom of sense 
we are born daily into feeling according to 
our observations through the senses. This, 
however, is feeling that bears no primary rela- 
tion to Life-Subjectivity. It is grounded in 
race and individual experience only, as if 
there were no God with us. It is that which 
has come from the human side of Life. It 
is race-conceived emotion, from standards of 
appearance. It is the living soul-feeling which 
personal man has deemed to be his life. It is 
feeling that he himself has caused to be created 
as his life, while ignorant of the Creative Life 



ETERNAL SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS 143 

within ; feeling which he involuntarily and un- 
consciously invoked by contacting his dimen- 
sional environment; feeling which God, just 
at the back of his mind, made for him in the 
darkness of his becoming state. God is the 
only Life. God is Within, back of the dark- 
ness of the mind. The Master blazed the Way 
to bring Life's self-conscious equivalent above 
the threshold. 

Bear in mind that soul is constituted by 
human feeling. The elements simply record 
and preserve the emotional vibrations. 

The race-man has spent all his allotted 
years, seeking and finding knowledge of Prin- 
ciple that he may gain power, wealth and com- 
fort in his moon-world, while his sun- world is 
at the very door of the mind. It has not oc- 
curred to him to look within to the same 
Source to discover the Knowledge-Principle 
by which he himself was created and founded 
in the elements; to know the Creative Spirit 
at the very door of the mind, that founded 
and maintains his entire organization ; to mine 
out of the Knowledge of Omniscience by for- 
mulating the signals It has sent up into his 
mind. These signals are words, seeds of Its 



144 mind's silent partner 

own Substance, to which It will respond, by 
giving birth to the feeling correspondent to 
his desire expressed in meditation, while he 
abides in the seed-words of Spirit, of Life. 

It was in this world that Jesus gave His 
Teaching. It was to the present race that the 
New Testament Teaching was given. He who 
said: "Take no thought for the morrow, " 
did not give His Teaching for to-morrow, for 
another world. Now is the time to begin the 
practice of it, abiding in the words represent- 
ing Life. Now, to-day, while you hear, while 
you read. 

It is the destiny of the Entity that It shall 
express in mind and flesh that Trinity of 
which It is a member generically. Christians 
throughout the world believe in the utterances 
of the ultimated Man, Jesus. 

In John VI, the Master teaches that, by the 
mind's conscious contact with the Life-Prin- 
ciple, man will be preserved for ever, death- 
less. The bread that Jesus offers there is His 
words, "which are Spirit and which are Life." 
These are to germinate in the self -conscious- 
ness of the mind and thus bring forth their 
fruit unto everlasting Life. Man will then 



ETERNAL SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS 145 

interpret all things in terms of Reality, and 
will interpret rightly Its secondary expression 
through the senses, being disillusioned of all 
that is not a true inheritance of Principle, 
which is Omniscience. 

All emotions induced by the mind's contact 
with environment are temporary and relative, 
bearing the character and nature of their ob- 
jective premises. They are therefore unreal, 
not being grounded in the Creative Kingdom. 
They are not unreal in the sense that they are 
unnecessary, but they are to give place to the 
higher order of emotion when the mind dis- 
covers its kinship with the Omniscience, its 
Great Resource. 

Through the medium of the soul we are to 
be led to seek Truth, to act upon It and enjoy 
It. Then our source of inspiration will grad- 
ually change. Instead of its being from out- 
side happenings and conditions, it will be from 
the Knowledge-Spirit functioning through the 
mind and out-picturing in sense. 

Soul is the only element we have to deal with 
that is material. Man, the likeness of God, is 
of Principle throughout. He lives in Prin- 
ciple in terms of Instinct of It. [Mind is the 



146 mind's silent partner 

product of instinctive action. It is a child of 
Principle. All the offices of the mind, inclu- 
sive of the entire body, are established by 
man's Instinct of Principle, and all the man- 
ifestations according to sense take place before 
there is any self -consciousness of the mind or 
any experience of sense. The whole mechan- 
ism is mental and has been produced out of, 
and by means of the Resources of Principle. 
The only foreign elements are the vibrations 
of race-activity in the state of sense. This is 
the only possible so-called realm of good and 
evil, which is transitory, to give place ulti- 
mately to a true and eternal self -conscious- 
ness. 

Looking through coloured glass, one does 
not see things as they are, and if one uses an 
instrument devised for seeing things of one 
plane, on another plane, the appearance of 
things so viewed is different from their 
appearance on their own plane. 

Even when we have discovered our connec- 
tion with God, there are those who can arouse 
the emotions to which we have been educated, 
namely, sentimental good and sentimental evil 
of the maudlin sort. The only way to deal 



ETERNAL SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS 147 

with any situation is to live in accordance with 
the Teaching and achieve fundamental spirit- 
ual mastery by meditation. In the growing 
regeneration we shall ourselves be taught 
directly from Within, as the Master was 
taught. Birth and death are simply words of 
sense. We cannot establish or found any true 
ideas of manhood apart from Principle. 
' ' Without Me ye can do nothing. ' f " Me ' ' here 
is Instinctive Life of Principle, the Great 
Subjectivity which the Heavenly Father func- 
tions at our desire. It is the All-Realm. 

Let us realise how our experience of people, 
friends, wife, husband, child, have all taken 
place by and through the mind. Every joy 
we feel of them, every sorrow of them, every 
good, every evil, all that we love of them, and 
all the intermediate emotions concerning them, 
in fact our entire consciousness connected with 
our dimensional experience, is a matter of 
record within, is contained in our book of liv- 
ing, yet to become a Book of Life. iThey all 
abide with us and must appear in terms of 
our own Resurrection, through the becoming 
of our regeneration. They must, for only 
their likeness within was born exoterically, the 



148 mind's silent partner 

exoteric being but the likeness in terms of 
form of the esoteric. All Reality within 
awaits our regeneration. What an incentive 
to enter the school of the Spirit ! It is With- 
in. 

St. Paul, inspired by the Master, said that 
the last enemy to be overcome is death. The 
time must come when people will know in 
their hearts, and not be deceived by sense. 
They will know their "I am," which is here 
spoken of in terms such as the Creative Spirit 
within, Instinctive-Manhood within. This 
we need to know in our mental life, that we 
may continue to live. Those who practise 
meditation are daily growing in this knowl- 
edge. It gives Life ; it does not take one away 
from beautiful things, but gives the key to 
them. 

"Let the Eternal- Spirit of self -conscious- 
ness within me come forth." 

That Spirit is potential in Principle and 
comes through the channel of Divine Man- 
hood, to be known by us and to serve us. We 
do not speak lightly of soul-experiences which 
are intended to grow greater and greater 
through the ages, as the Knowledge-Spirit 



I AM SPIRIT 149 

comes more and more into the mind's con- 
sciousness, illuminating the mind in its rela- 
tion to the over-soul, its environment of sense. 
But let us not be deceived by things that, 
though born through the Power and Wisdom 
of Principle, yet are not of It. We must re- 
ceive experience on both planes, and we can- 
not do this except we become alive to our Sub- 
jectivity. Meditation is the heart of the prac- 
tice of our teaching. By its means we bring 
Life forth from Subjectivity into terms of 
self -consciousness and ultimately realise our 
birthright of Omniscience. 

"Let the Eternal Spirit of self -conscious- 
ness within me come forth. " 



"i am spirit" 



"God is Spirit, and they that worship Him 
must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth." 

From these words of the Master it appears 
that, in order to worship God, one must be in 
the Spirit. To worship in Spirit and in truth, 
one must come into a spiritual state, turning 
from the seen, the mundane, to the unseen, the 



150 mind's silent partner 

Seal, that the mind may call forth a likeness 
of God in Life-Feeling. 

Had Jesus wished to teach of God in accord- 
ance with the conception the race had of God, 
He certainly would have been able to couch 
His teaching in unmistakable current terms. 

The race-idea of God was then that of a 
personal Being, located somewhere in the 
spheres apart from the world.' Jesus did not 
teach this, but taught "God is Spirit," and 
without Him was not anything made that was 
made. 

Out of and by means of Spirit came all 
created things. Spirit ante-dates all activity. 
There was a time, according to sense concep- 
tion, when nothing was but Spirit. Man must, 
therefore, have been produced from Spirit, 
from the activity inherent in God Himself in 
His own infinite zone of Spiritual Substance. 

Nothing comes out of Spirit that is not in 
It. The productions of Spirit are all spirit- 
ual. 

The essential entity, individual man, was 
produced from Substantial Spirit or Prin- 
ciple. This is as near as one can tell the story 
in pure mental terms. 



I AM SPIRIT 151 

Man must recognise his spiritual nature 
clearly before he can pray rightly to the liv- 
ing God, the Principle of all things, and get 
his response in likeness of It. This response 
comes first in mental terms, by a process sim- 
ilar to that used in invention for environmen- 
tal purposes. An idea occupies the imagina- 
tion, then conception takes place in the mind, 
finally form is evolved out of Principle, ready 
to be cast in the elements and to serve the 
purpose in objective life for which it was in- 
vented. Thus, in science or art, an idea has 
its rise in Principle long before it reaches a 
condition of concrete objective creation. 

By parity of reasoning, man in order to be- 
come conscious of Principle as related to him- 
self, must place his mind in such relation to 
his Principle as to get response from It. 

He must have an intelligent conviction that 
Man-Principle Is, and then use the means at 
hand of touching and communicating with it, 
that Its likeness may be brought forth into 
self-conscious cognition day by day, and a new 
personality ultimately formed which shall ex- 
press its Divine Source in feeling and in form. 
We would say, that having recognized that 



152 mind's silent partner 

individual Man is Spirit, the likeness of God, 
one should imagine that the Christ within is 
speaking through the medium of meditation 
into the mind, that the spirit of the words may 
be born into the mind's record. Thus does 
the indwelling Christ illuminate the mental 
creation It has founded in the elements. 

Let personal affairs be dropped whilst this 
gestation of a spiritual consciousness is going 
on, that Divine Manhood within may ulti- 
mately be brought to birth. The Spiritual 
words given us by the Master from His Mas- 
ter within, which is identical with our Within 
are to be brought to birth in our minds as they 
were in His mind. Sit quietly then and 
attend, as if the mind were receiving the words 
from the Spirit of Christ, as if the divine 
personality were forming within you and ex- 
pressing itself, — "I am spirit." 

Spirit is Knowledge, Absolute Substance, by 
which we live, and without which we cannot 
live. Neither mind, body nor consciousness 
can be brought forth without Spirit. Let us 
not get the idea that the feeling or state of con- 
sciousness we have at this moment is truly 
spiritual. Our ordinary feeling is but psychi- 



I AM SPIRIT 153 

cal feeling, the product of mind action from 
objective premises of existence. 

Eeal Wisdom, transcendental Wisdom, is 
intuitional, and is ready to deal with facts 
without conscious mental processes. It is 
ready for all emergencies of the fact-world. 
It may be cultivated through the practice of 
this order of meditation. 

Through entering the school of Spirit, by 
means of our meditation, we start on our way 
towards the fulfilling of our destiny potential 
in undifferentiated generic God-Manhood. 
God is ready to give us in terms of self -con- 
sciousness, a feeling, an emotion, as great as 
Omniscience Itself, for us to express in terms 
of daily living while in process of fulfilling 
our spiritual destiny. 

The difference between the psychical and the 
spiritual is to be clearly noted. Psychical or 
soul emotions are recorded in psychical stuff, 
an exceedingly refined product of chemical 
action induced in the brain by the activities of 
the mind in preparation, pari passu, for the 
coming emotion of sense. The same process 
of preparation takes place to receive the 
spiritual emotion, the recording substance 



154 mind's silent partner 

being the same in the one case as in the other, 
the difference being only in the nature of the 
emotion recorded. 

Psychical emotion is of the world of sense, 
of the realm of personality of people and 
things. Spiritual emotion is of the Creative 
Principle of Omniscience. The one is chang- 
ing and finite, the other is as enduring as is 
Omniscience Itself. 

There are two elements to consider in rela- 
tion to soul ; one the recording substance, which 
is psychical material, the other that which is 
recorded as experience on the psychical sub- 
stance. Similarly with regard to Spirit, there 
are two elements, the recording substance and 
the Feeling contained in the substance of the 
recording element, that is, the Pneumatolog- 
ical record and the emotion received on this 
recording material imparting a Divine char- 
acter to its first dimension. When pneumato- 
logical feeling has been generated from the 
mind's contact with its natal Source of Spirit, 
the experience is recorded directly from Prin- 
ciple. In both cases the recording element is 
the same, the feeling recorded is what consti- 
tutes in the one case, the soul, in the other, 



I AM SPIRIT 155 

the Spirit of the individual. The one or the 
other imparts its character to the first dimen- 
sion of the record. 

The mind is the medium through which all 
operations from the abstract to the concrete 
take place. Its mundane office is to function 
between the soul, and the over-soul, rendering 
the product of such functioning into terms of 
emotion. The mind, however, belongs to, and 
is subjectively associated, with the Spirit, or 
Principle of Knowledge. 

Mind is, so to speak the office through which 
Spirit reveals Itself as Knowledge, while at 
the same time it is functioning on the objec- 
tive side of soul-life. Soul is intermediate 
between Spirit and mind. In the develop- 
ment of soul, the mind's environment of sense, 
the over-soul, is the stimulus, and the ensuing 
emotion is therefore grounded in sense. In 
the case of spiritual development, the mind's 
desire, expressed in the spirit words of the 
meditation, is the stimulus, and the ensuing 
emotion is therefore grounded in Principle 
through the medium of the Christ, within. 
The one creates a consciousness that is tem- 
poral and death-bound. The other creates a 



156 mind's silent partner 

consciousness that is Eternal and Life-bound. 

It is significant to note that language has 
been scientifically constructed despite our use 
of words from wrong standpoints. 

Soul is the compendium of personal and 
race-experience as related to environment. 
The Greek term for soul is, psuche, which 
English borrows, spelling it psyche. The An- 
cient Greeks only recognised life as conceived 
of through the senses. The word psyche, the 
equivalent of their word psuche, has as mate- 
rial an implication as "body," mentally speak- 
ing. We do not belittle it by calling it mate- 
rial. 

The soul is formed by vibrations induced 
by the mind's contact with personal environ- 
mental existence through the channels of 
sense. The psyche or soul, is not a spiritual 
entity, though a necessary medium to spiritual 
ends. 

Life answers to the desires of the mind and 
gives finite soul-consciousness while one is 
ignorant of Life Itself. This consciousness 
is not spiritual, since it bears no likeness to 
the Eternal. 

Only those messages registered in the mind 



I AM SPIRIT 157 

as self-consciousness which come from the 
spirit of Knowledge are Spiritual. 

The Greeks classed mind and life together 
as one substance, soul and body together as 
one substance. In deductive science Mind 
and Life are grouped together as also are soul 
and body. 

Mind in its functioning produces soul, but 
without the involuntary action directly from 
Principle soul could not exist. Mind and Life 
are thus the vital Entities, whilst soul and 
body are secondary, and are made up of ex- 
periences from objective premises constituting 
a medium for the bringing forth ultimately of 
a Divine self-consciousness grounded in Prin- 
ciple through the Man-Entity. Spirit is the 
Wisdom, Truth, Goodness, Love and Eternal- 
ness of the Most High. 

The spiritual message is written in terms of 
cells in the brain through the agency of words 
as they are held during meditation. These 
spiritual seed are sown and the resulting ges- 
tation translates Instinctive Life into its in- 
tuitional correspondence in the self-conscious- 
ness of the individual. 

First there must be a desire to know and 



158 mind's silent partner 

worship the Most High. Then as the medita- 
tions, taking their rise from Spirit, are used, 
one lets go of one's usual idea of one's self 
while imperceptibly the Kingdom of Heaven 
within grows, and new standards of life come 
forth. Let us strip the mind bare and let it 
bring the message from the Great within. "I 
am Spirit." 

This meditation is to be considered as an 
announcement of the Divine Man within, not 
of personality or of the mind as related to 
sense-life. The mind's conceiving office will 
brood over words of Truth whilst their like- 
ness is being revealed and built into the record 
in the brain. These likenesses will produce 
in self-consciousness the equivalent of Prin- 
ciple in terms ready for intuitional use in all 
the affairs of life. The words of Truth that 
the subjective imagination enters into, will, 
sooner or later, become a revelation of Wisdom 
and Health to the mind. A state of uninter- 
rupted Wisdom related both to one's inner and 
outer consciousness constitutes a state of 
continuous health, happiness and personal 
expression of goodness. Wisdom is practical 
knowledge which, when put into terms for ob- 



I AM SPIRIT 159 

jective use, means doing the right thing, at the 
right time, in the right place and with the 
right result. Wisdom in the mind is of THAT 
which is keeping us alive. The psychical feel- 
ing of wisdom is inductive and is the message 
related to sense-life. 

Therefore meditate on the word " Wisdom,' ' 
or such words as reveal Spirit, then, what is 
now only a potentiality or promise will become 
a state of consciousness, and a working Power. 

This is the result of placing one's mind in 
such a position towards the Principle of exist- 
ence that the mind may receive the fulfilment 
of its desire. But it must be trained to call 
for such fulfilment, day by day. The mind 
knows not of the great spiritual Realm which 
was thought to be far away, — "over the river." 
Yet, by intelligent desire, the mind may 
communicate with its Source, as the Master 
taught, and as deductive science has proved. 

The mind was created and officed for prac- 
tical use by the Creative Spirit, the Christ 
Within. Through these offices, — perception, 
imagination, reason, judgment, memory, ab- 
straction, aesthetic taste, will and intuition, — 
Subjective Man makes use of Principle to mul- 



160 mind's silent partner 

tiply by nine the single faculty of Instinct. 
They are placed in such relationship to each 
other as to constitute a mental organization 
suitable to serve the further purpose of receiv- 
ing Life into the mind's record by calling forth 
the Spirit of Omniscience into intuitional 
terms. 

By the meditation, "I am Spirit," we have 
prayed "In Spirit and in Truth" and we have 
caused our mind's desire to be translated into 
a state of spiritual fulfilment. The desire ex- 
pressed in the meditation is answered through 
the Christ, Mediator between mind and its 
Principle, the Great Within, from which all 
spiritual fulfilment is to come. 

In the following meditation this desire is 
expressed, the very subjectivity of conscious 
desire relating itself naturally to the Divine 
Manhood of Principle : — 

"That the mind Thou hast given me, and the 
self-consciousness Thou hast created, at my 
ignorant desire, while I knew not of Thee 
Within, may give place to the Righteousness 
of Thy Love, of Thy Wisdom, My Great, My 
All-embracing Silent Partner Within." 



INFINITE SPIRIT WITHIN ME 161 



"INFINITE SPIRIT WITHIN me" 



We make good use of our time when we 
meditate on Infinite Spirit within. The order 
of meditation we need is one that will bring 
to us a consciousness of Infinite Spirit, not 
according to our idea of what Infinite Spirit 
is, but as It is in Reality. 

It is possible to desire so as to bring forth 
from the universe what one needs. The way 
to do this is to get the mind into a full belief 
that these needs are to be met. 

If one's nature be adapted to concentrating 
upon any desired result one may go into the 
silence and think concentratedly and expect- 
antly to that end. This is the process often 
called "meditation," especially if the thought 
be connected with spiritual intent. It is how- 
ever, intellectual meditation. 

In the order of meditation we practise we 
endeavour to clear the mind of its usual activi- 
ties. We do not think. We choose certain 
words that represent the Spirit of the desire, 
to which, desire has not yet found answer 
in the consciousness of the mind. We hold 



162 MIND'S SILENT PARTNER 

these words up to the conceiving powers of the 
mind, and let them dwell there until gradually 
their message is revealed in a feeling that is 
the likeness of the Spirit whence they pro- 
ceeded. 

Infinite Spirit is that Spirit within by which 
we have been brought into self-conscious life, 
the original Spirit that comes into the mind's 
use before it has any out-picturing in sense. 

The spirit — soul emotion — we are endowed 
with at present is a spirit of sense, called into 
existence by the mind's environment. This 
in a general sense is finite spirit which is ulti- 
mately to give place in the mind's conscious- 
ness to Infinite Spirit. 

There is Infinite Spirit as related to environ- 
ment. This is called forth into the mind by 
its necessities in contacting and struggling 
with environment. It is the spirit which 
is used in invention and construction. This 
realm of Infinite Spirit, manifested to us for 
use, is changeless, is always good, and we are 
always able to get from It something greater 
than we have had before. This spirit has al- 
ways served us by producing environmental 
requirements. Its name is Principle. Up to 



INFINITE SPIRIT WITHIN ME 163 

the present age, Spirit, as related to the mind's 
own continuity of self-conscious existence, has 
not been brought forth into self-conscious life. 
It has not been supposed that this was possible, 
or that means were at hand on this plane to 
extend existence, to correct our mistakes, to 
make good the havoc we have made, and ulti- 
mately in accordance with the Master's saying 
to do away with the necessity for death. 

The Infinite cannot die. Our goal is to be- 
come conscious of the Infinite Spirit to ends of 
emotional life in daily existence independently 
of environmental life. 

Just as there is always something greater in 
this Infinite Spirit than has been brought out 
of It, so is there That within, relating to man's 
own life in self -consciousness, which can bring 
forth greater results than man has dreamed of 
since he was formed in the elements. 

Our teaching is for the purpose of bringing 
the Infinite Spirit into the consciousness for 
present use. When brought forth to that end 
It will extend Its activities through the me- 
dium of the sensorium illuminating our trail 
through the world of sense experience. 

Principle is giving birth constantly, and 



164 mind's silent partner 

especially in recent times, to inventions for 
environmental purposes, for which man has 
used to a wonderful degree, the principle of 
proportion. Now we want to bring to birth 
in the mind the likeness of Principle as related 
to mental self-consciousness as well as to the 
objective necessities of daily life. 

Principle is the highest Source to which we 
can appeal for Knowledge — that is, for Fun- 
damental, creative Knowledge. The soul does 
not possess it. From soul the mind can bring 
forth facts of gathered experience, but nothing 
Fundamental or Creative. 

Is it possible that we have been so ignorant 
as to think the mind's soul-consciousness and 
its expression in environment to be the Real 
self-consciouness ? Everything we have been 
conscious of has been related to the senses 
excepting in so far as it was abstract. The 
consciousness we have known is related to the 
people and world around us. 

But did the world make us ? There is That 
within which is abstract, upon which we draw 
for our inventions. Is that self-consciousness ? 
Self -consciousness, as we ordinarily think of 
it, is simply a soul-consciousness of emotions 



INFINITE SPIRIT WITHIN ME 165 

experienced by the race and by ourselves. 
That is the personal self, but what life does 
personality of itself possess ? 

Life is not in food, neither in sight nor can 
hearing vibrate it. What life can you get 
from environment? Life is the Within of 
the mind. From the Creative Spirit alone, 
which formed us whilst we were yet uncon- 
scious, comes the power to create objective 
forms. 

Self -consciousness is defined by the schools 
as the power possessed by the mind to reason 
and to judge and to handle Principle; to look 
back upon Origin and to reason and judge con- 
cerning It, and to have intelligent dominion 
over the elements of the earth. 

Our meaning of self -consciousness includes 
more than that. It is to be conscious of Man, 
as well as of things; to be conscious of Man, 
the likeness of God, Within. 

Man is the only creation in the universe 
which is a likeness of Omniscience. This is 
evidenced by the fact that consciousness of 
Life can be drawn directly out of It, which is 
the equivalent of Omniscience extended to the 
plane of the mind. 



166 mind's silent partner 

The last fifty years show a perfectly won- 
derful effort of invention in the use of the 
Creative Spirit objectively. 

All these or any other formations of Prin- 
ciple exist first — and last — in Principle, are 
then brought forth into mental terms, and are 
finally clothed in the elements, according to 
sense. But Man is the only creation brought 
forth out of Principle that has the power of 
becoming self-conscious of It and of volun- 
tarily using it. 

Does Principle lose anything of Itself when 
creations are brought forth from It? We 
look upon our inventions as material for we 
can destroy them. But still they exist, where 
they have always existed, in Principle. The 
mind is equipped to bring them forth again 
and still deprive Principle of nothing. 

The most important of all creations of Prin- 
ciple are the individuals of the human race. 
Every child brought into the world is an 
expression of Principle, and might be termed 
an invention. The Principle of Knowledge 
has given expression of Itself in this form 
throughout the ages. Has the Principle of 



INFINITE SPIRIT WITHIN ME 167 

Manhood lost anything of Itself by man's in- 
creasing facility of invention? 

What is fundamentally necessary in order 
that a human being may be born ? A human 
being is just as much a product of Principle 
as is an invention. Every child inherits the 
whole Principle of invention ; and every child 
inherits the Principle of its own existence as 
well. These two are one. 

God is not a parsimonious Giver. He has 
given us the whole of Principle to use in sense. 
Do you think the nine faculties of the mind, 
located in definite places in the brain, and all 
that constitutes these offices, could exist with- 
out Principle ? 

You get from Principle everything that 
gives success in your struggle with environ- 
ment. Are you provided less generously with 
things for your mind's spiritual existence, 
than for your physical life environment? 
Provision is there, but it has to be recognized 
to be used. "The Kingdom of Heaven is 
within you." These pregnant words are 
among the greatest the Master ever spoke of 
man. They are the greatest of all clues to the 



168 mind's silent partner 

way of regeneration, to the way of knowing 
God now, while on earth; and to the way of 
peaceful dominion over all the earth — the 
mastery of our own life in self -consciousness. 
Jesus did not restrain Himself from saying 
that the last enemy might be overcome, even 
death. 

The Principle of Manhood may be known, 
which would do away with the blundering that 
ends in death. We need to change the process 
by which we live, to rely upon the Spirit of 
Life Within, instead of relying on environ- 
ment to give us a feeling of Life. Omniscience 
of Principle is expressed in the bodily make- 
up. 

From Omniscience comes a Knowledge that 
never fails, for our use in our environmental 
life. Why should we not have this unfailing 
knowledge for forming of an enduring self- 
consciousness ? Why not enter the Kingdom 
Within where God dwells and which the God 
manifest spoke of as our Life ? The Principle 
of Manhood is still within. It will always be 
within but we can get an equivalent of Itself 
in terms of life in self-conscious existence, yet 
take nothing away from It, just by making 
use of It. 



INFINITE SPIRIT WITHIN ME 169 

By the desire of the mind one can call out 
from Principle within a likeness that will 
come into self -consciousness as Wisdom, death- 
less Goodness, Health and Rightness — the 
Bightness as it is in Principle and not as we 
understand it psychically. 

This is what the Master meant when He said 
"My words are Spirit. " They unfold into 
self-consciousness the Spirit of God, the 
Eternal. 

Man is perfect because he is a member of 
the Trinity of Principle. We can go to school 
to that idea and get the mind to pay heed to 
the utterance. There is something to do to 
induce Principle to give birth to this perfec- 
tion, to bring It up into our self-consciousness. 
The Master taught us the way. He said of His 
words, "My words they are Spirit and they 
are Life." They are Spirit and bring their 
Life both to the self -consciousness of the mind 
in which they are held, and therefore an en- 
during quality to its offices. When grown to 
their fullness in terms of cells, they are devel- 
oped ready for use. Principle to the mind in 
its present state is abstract. When It comes 
into terms of conscious emotion it has become 
concrete to the mind, and the mind can use It. 



170 mind's silent partner 

Principle gives birth to conscious manhood. 
It would be nothing to Its creation except 
It had that in It which could make Itself 
known. 

Man completed in self -consciousness is the 
self-consciousness of God. The Master said, 
"To know God is Eternal Life/' Is this not 
the greatest thing of which anyone could con- 
ceive ? Is it not conceivable that the greatest 
thing God could do is to give us the use of 
Himself, His Omniscience? 

We have something to do to take what we 
may have. We can do nothing without Life, 
yet, in our present stage we have not attained 
to a conscious use of Manhood-Life within. 

For a few years we can exist without know- 
ing our Source, but in those years we have an 
opportunity of discovering It. No man really 
lives until he knows Life. "To know God is 
Life Eternal." That privilege is our dignity. 
This knowledge we are equipped to gain. 
" Except ye believe that I am He, ye have no 
life in you." 

"Let the Eternal Spirit of self -conscious- 
ness within me come forth." 



INFINITE SPIRIT WITHIN ME 171 

If that is the desire of your mind and you 
abide in those words, they will call an answer- 
ing fulfilment from their Source. But do you 
believe it can be done ? Just now we have to 
educate ourselves to believe. We trust too 
much in soul rather than in Spirit. Both 
kingdoms are within, down beneath the thresh- 
old of self-consciousness. Could they have 
existed without the Kingdom of Principle? 
We need to explore that Kingdom and learn 
of It in order to live by the Spirit instead of 
thinking of nothing day by day but feeding 
the body and the sense desires. Mind is the 
direct product of Omniscience and is equipped 
to bring forth from its Source the Bread of 
Life which is living Knowledge to the mind. 

"Let the Eternal Spirit of self -conscious- 
ness within me come forth." 

"Feed my mind with living Knowledge, feed 
my heart with living Love." 

Thus may we have Eternal Wisdom, en- 
abling us to enjoy our environment contin- 
uously. Thus may we be able to handle it, 
understand it, and not be deceived by appear- 
ances. 



172 mind's silent partner 

thott, my creative spirit 

Infinite Spirit within is the practical work- 
ing Spirit lent to the mind to gain the initial 
experience of soul-life for its use at will. The 
Spirit answers to "iihe desires of intelligence 
and the results are the fulfilment of these de- 
sires. The outcome in the race has been sim- 
ply living soul, and not living self -conscious- 
ness of Spirit. 

So when we say " Infinite Spirit within me," 
and abide in the words, consciousness seems to 
rise more and more into an awareness that this 
great Power is working within. 

The Infinite Spirit is to teach us of our own 
selfhood within, of our own Divine Nature, 
not hitherto disclosed. As we express the 
desire to be taught of the Spirit, by abiding in 
the words which are to reveal that Spirit, It 
will answer to their call in our meditation. 

"Thou my Creative Spirit art Supreme 
within me ; I would be taught of Thee, would 
learn of Thee, would be born into Knowledge 
of Thee. Reign Thou Supreme in my self- 
consciousness as Thou dost in the pure Sub- 
jectivity of Thy kingdom within." 

Nothing that the Master ever said was more 



THOU, MY CREATIVE SPIRIT 173 

clear cut, more astounding, more illuminating, 
than the great words, "The Kingdom of God 
is within you." These words cannot be ig- 
nored. That Within is to be known. ' ' I would 
be taught of Thee; I would be taught of the 
Great Spirit in the Kingdom within, which is 
the ' pearl of great price.' I would dispose of 
my lesser possessions to receive into my con- 
sciousness the Spirit of this newly discovered 
Kingdom, my Eternal Life within me. I 
would be born into Thy Spirit." 

The Master prayed: "That they may know 
Thee and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent." 
The words of our meditation express the same 
desire as the words of the Master. "They" 
means everybody who hears. The Creative 
Spirit is the activity of God in us, through 
Instinctive Manhood, which is only of God. 

Now let us take another order of medita- 
tion : — 

"I of myself can do nothing." 

These words are spoken of the personal con- 
sciousness of the mind, this being upheld from 
within, given life from within, owned and 
functioned by the Creative Spirit, "the Father 
dwelling within," What, indeed, can the 



174 mind's silent partner 

personal man do without the Kingdom of 
Knowledge within? 

"I of mine own self can do nothing, Thou, 
Master, dwelling within, doest all things for 
me at my desire. ' ' Life always backs up one 's 
desires. We cannot have any degree of Health 
except what comes from Life, and we can have 
infinitely more. All that Is, so far as we are 
concerned, is with us at this moment, though 
we are only acquainted with an infinitesimal 
part of It. 

We are dignified by being created capable 
of calling forth into self-consciousness the 
resources of our Kingdom within. But there 
is no reward of merit for the sluggard, there 
is something to be done to obtain a result. In 
the doing we may be peaceful and happy, but 
since it is now revealed how to proceed, if we 
loiter away our time we have no excuse. We 
are not worthy to receive into our understand- 
ing and feeling the Kingdom of Life, unless 
we undertake the doing of that which it is our 
divine privilege to do. 

Why did the Master utter these wonderful 
words, "the Kingdom of God is within you" 
while on the earth, to the people of the earth, 



THOU, MY CREATIVE SPIRIT 175 

if this Kingdom is to be for ever hidden 
within, never to be known and enjoyed here 
and now while man is in possession of It % Is 
this a truth or is it a taunt % It always will be 
within, but man must bring the equivalent of 
It into his own mind through abiding in His 
words. 

That which enables the Creative Spirit to 
act is the Substance of which the Christ is the 
moving Spirit. 

We are not only being taught in the Silence 
but we are being given more Faith, and grad- 
ually the great system of Truth will become 
more clearly defined. As Faith is developed 
from the Kingdom within, it will inspire us to 
practise in the way the Master taught. 

It is marvelous that the mind has been given 
the faculty of intuition, — which functions 
from whatever realm the mind desires to call 
into activity, — intuition of Truth from the 
Master within, intuition from the race exper- 
iences recorded below the threshold in soul- 
life, intuition to objective ends. 

This then shall now be our vital Silence : 

"Thou, my Creative Spirit, art Supreme 
within me. I would be taught of Thee, would 



176 mind's silent partner 

learn of Thee, would be born into Thy Spirit. 
Reign Thou Supreme in my self-consciousness 
as Thou dost in the pure Subjectivity of Thy 
Kingdom within.' ' 



PEACE, BE STILL 



We must learn to call the Master within, 
to our aid to say to our consciousness what 
He said through Jesus to the sea, " Peace, be 
still." One's environment may be still but 
one's-self perturbed, but if the self be still the 
environment matters not, as then, if wisdom 
be needed, one is in a state to receive it. 

Our wonderful faculty of imagination has 
its counterpart in Subjectivity. It works with 
our consciousness below the threshold of our 
cognition at the moment, through the subjec- 
tive Man. Unbridled imagination, function- 
ing a negative idea, such for instance as an im- 
aginary fear, can be seen at work plainly. 
The same working of imagination goes on in 
its functioning below the surface of momen- 
tary cognition. 

When we consciously use imagination we 



PEACE, BE STILL 177 

are able to account for the phenomena it 
brings, but when one is unconscious of its 
activities, still, its results may appear to the 
mind in phenomena produced by imagination 
which yet are not representative of facts, 
mere vagaries. Many serious illnesses come 
from this source. 

Our aim here, in contrast with this illegiti- 
mate and destructive use of imagination, is to 
use imagination so that we may know and feel 
what is true and vitalising, namely, that the 
Christ is Within; that we may realise the 
feeling that gave birth to the words of our 
meditation " Peace, be Still." 

We therefore imagine Christ to be saying, 
to His self-conscious child, His creation, 
"Peace, be still," although he speaks not in 
words but in spirit, which mind interprets into 
the words, ' ' Peace, be still. ' ' These words are 
the product of Jesus' call on His Indwelling 
Christ for His inherited peaceful dominion 
over the elements. They contain the spirit of 
the Master Within ; were born to represent the 
Spirit. They are virile to-day with the same 
spirit, to work their silent conquest of soul, or 



178 mind's silent partner 

over-soul. But the mind must brood over 
these word-seeds of life that their spirit may 
be quickened in us and become part of our 
pneumatological record. This meditation is 
intended to have its effect throughout the 
whole mentality, to still the rushing of the 
phantasmagoria of the mind. It is the Spirit 
making Itself felt, which is interpreted as say- 
ing " Peace, be still. " To call thus on the 
Christ Within is the way of regeneration and 
Life. To rely on outward means is the way 
of psychology and undevelopment. 

I am speaking these words now, but I am 
trying to tell you how, to use the imagination 
to engage the mind and keep it brooding 
over the words. Thus will the human, tur- 
bulent consciousness, which is always pushing 
straight on its death-bound way, eventually 
be stilled and the mind will come to know its 
Saviour Within. 

No matter how we are enjoying ourselves, 
how beautiful our state of existence appears 
to us, how enthralled and entranced we are at 
the moment in sense-life, still we are going 
headlong with our material organisation 
straight toward the dust, capitulating to the 



PEACE, BE STILL 179 

over-soul of the universe. In the meditation, 
" Peace, be still," there comes a stilling of the 
consciousness and an illumination that arrests 
the death-bound process. Let us try to realise 
what our Christ is saying to us by His Spirit 
which is translated into the words " Peace, be 
still." These words of the Master would not 
have controlled the sea if in His mind and His 
own consciousness their light had not been 
shining, still and unafraid. " Peace, be still." 
Get the uttermost good out of the meditation 
by letting the imagination go further. The 
Spirit of Knowledge as constituted in self -con- 
sciousness was manifested in Jesus. Jesus 
was to Christ as the gramophone is to the 
record. He was the instrument through which 
the Manhood-Truth was spoken and mani- 
fested to the race as self -consciousness. But 
before His Spirit had blossomed into Eternal 
self-consciousness this was gradually being 
written upon and formed into His Mind's 
record during His thirty years of preparation. 
Imagine, therefore, that you have called the 
Spirit of Knowledge into your offices of self- 
consciousness. As this Spirit pervades the 
offices of the mind It is replying to your desire 



180 mind's silent partner 

in the words "Peace, be still." "Be still, and 
prepare to receive from the great Within, with 
which "I am" is the connecting link. The 
Spirit is possessing the offices of the mind and 
stilling the storm there. You may not know of 
it, but there is that in the mind that attracts 
away from Truth, and before you can receive 
in the silence the mind must be in a state of 
active stillness. Be still, that the mind may 
receive vital Knowledge from its Creator." 
Now let us add words to give a specific char- 
acter to the Peace we are asking for : 
" Peace, Peace, Omniscient, vital Peace." 
Imagine that the spirit of Christ within you 
is giving the feeling you ask for. The mind 
is as capable of this as it is of imagining 
worldly ideas. The Peace that brings with it 
Knowledge from within, Omniscient, vital 
Peace, — for which another name is Love, — is 
the greatest thing in Life to ask for — if there 
be a greatest. You are calling It out from 
your Omniscience within, by inviting the 
Christ-Spirit into your self -consciousness. In 
the scale of Divine-Emotion, neither Knowl- 
edge nor Love is lacking because in Divine 
self -consciousness the Spirit of Knowledge is 



PEACE, BE STILL 181 

Love. If Christ were in possession of your 
mind He would create for you everlasting joy 
and the practical wisdom attending it. You 
know that is true. But Christ is within you, 
— you simply lack awareness of it. By the 
use of imagination, with desire to know the 
Christ within, you make vital connection with 
the Christ-Spirit. The mind is as capable of 
imagining the things of the Spirit as it is of 
imagining worldly ideas. 

Christ always is in the unconsciousness 
before He becomes manifested in self-con- 
sciousness as God-qualities. We need to get 
used to the utterances of Christ as they are 
gestating in the mind's consciousness. Any 
meditation regarding Divine Manhood must 
first be concreted in emotion within, before it 
comes into our conscious knowledge. To pur- 
sue the idea of Peace, let us take as a medita- 
tion — " Peace be unto you." 

The divine imagination has brought forth 
the Spirit of your Christ within. With the 
imagination comes the idea that this great 
salutation is being uttered to the self-con- 
sciousness in the brain. It is a greeting to 
you from the impersonal to the new personal- 



182 mind's silent partner 

ity that is forming within. It means more 
than a special greeting spoken by a friend. 
It means not only "I have come to give you 
peace from that which now perturbs you," 
but it means "I have come to bring peace 
against further storms." 

With this idea working within the conscious- 
ness of the mind, you enter into your medita- 
tion. The Peace our meditation calls for is 
a spiritual feeling, Knowledge-full and Love- 
full. " Peace be unto you." 

During this meditation, according to the 
teaching of the Master, the Spirit of Christ 
has been present in the mind gradually work- 
ing regeneration of the consciousness which is 
progressing towards ultimate absolute Knowl- 
edge of the Principle on which conscious Man- 
hood is being founded. 

"Let the Creative Spirit of Divine Man- 
hood within me come forth, the Omniscient 
Spirit which forgiveth all mine iniquities, 
which healeth all my diseases, which crowneth 
me with loving kindness and tender mercies 
in my self-conscious life." 

Every meditation should tell something of 
the way of salvation from the ignorance of 



PEACE, BE STILL 183 

mere sense-perception. This meditation tells 
a great deal. It tells of God, of man, of self- 
consciousness in spiritual terms. It tells of 
the way in which a new order of self -con- 
sciousness is to be made through desire. 
Nothing is ever done without desire, voluntary 
or involuntary, either in that upper realm we 
know as self -consciousness, or in the subjec- 
tivity of self-consciousness, below the thresh- 
old of our cognition. 

"Let the Creative Spirit come forth," these 
words indicate your desire for It to come forth 
into the active office of self-consciousness. 
You should welcome the desire and have the 
expectancy that belongs to desire in order to 
fructify it. 

"The Creative Spirit of Divine Manhood;" 
these words intimate how Divine Manhood 
is created in conditional life and has Its equiv- 
alent in terms of sensation. The meditation 
points out how one's individual Christ works 
in the offices of the mind to perform the re- 
generation required and desired. The regen- 
eration is the transmutation of the emotion 
we have called iniquity. 

Then the meditation tells how the Christ 



184 mind's silent partner 

Spirit, the Omniscient Spirit forgives, or 
" gives over" the spirit of ignorance by taking 
active possession of the mind and illuminat- 
ing the darkness of ignorance that has ob- 
tained. What can overcome the spirit of 
ignorance but the Spirit of Knowledge ? The 
Spirit of Knowledge is given in the proportion 
that the mind is able to receive It at the mo- 
ment. It comes not as an act of grace but of 
education. 

The spirit of "evil" is not a reality, but a 
misconception born of our own ignorant state 
of mind. As in the processes of daily life, 
we may step from ignorance to knowledge, as 
our minds become clearer by wisdom and 
understanding, so the mind may grow spirit- 
ually as ignorance is dispelled through trans- 
cendental Knowing. 

The latter part of the meditation is taken 
from the Psalms. The word "which" holds 
here a greater meaning than "who." Funda- 
mentally, no one can forgive your ignorance. 
You alone can deliver yourself from funda- 
mental ignorance. You can learn how to take 
steps to do it from a teacher, but no master 
can do it for you. You have to accomplish it 



PEACE, BE STILL 185 

by putting your mind into that attitude that 
will permit the work to be done by the Christ 
within. 

"-Let the Creative Spirit of Divine Man- 
hood within me come forth, the Omniscient 
Spirit which forgiveth all mine iniquities, 
which healeth all my diseases and which 
crowneth me with loving kindness and tender 
mercies in all the ways of my self-conscious 
life." 

All ignorance, concrete in emotion, is 
grounded in the mind's action from false 
premises or premises of sense only. I refer 
to that order of ignorance that interferes with 
the continuity of one's self -consciousness. 

One's salvation from ignorant emotion 
comes about by the change in the mind from 
sensuous to spiritual premises. By concrete 
ignorance I mean, further, those activities of 
the mind such as false beliefs that have their 
ground in untrue premises concerning eternal 
Life. These ideas have been formed from the 
worship of an anthropomorphic God, a per- 
sonal God located in some sphere, who for- 
gives sin by legal edict whereas according to 
the Master, sins, or ignorant emotions, are for- 



186 mind's silent partner 

given, given over by man's opening of his mind 
to Truth, and receiving the spirit of It. 
Divine Spirit always brings the equivalent of 
Knowledge to any particular emotion which 
is being expressed. 

• "The things I do, ye shall do also," said the 
Master. As His disciples did not do the great- 
est things, it has been left to His disciples of 
this age to fulfill these prophetic words. We 
must conclude that He either spoke the truth 
or did not. 

Let the Spirit of Christ, which is the Spirit 
of God, come into your mind. You are used 
to the human spirit of love, joy, peace and 
goodness, and unfortunately to negative forms 
of emotion. These human emotions are spirit 
in the sensuous use of the term, but are to 
pass with the incoming of the enduring tran- 
scendental Spirit of Love and Joy. 

"Peace, Peace, Omniscient, vital Peace. 
My Peace I leave with you, My Peace I give 
unto you ; not as the world giveth, give I unto 
you. Let not your heart be troubled, let it be 
unafraid." 



THAT I MAY BE MADE WHOLE 187 



"THAT I MAY BE MADE EVERY WHIT WHOLE 
IN MY FEELING NATURE AND IN MY FORM" 



There are two kinds of healing. People 
who are sensitive and more or less credulous, 
but ignorant, may be healed quickly and often 
are healed in single treatments. People who 
are particularly sensitive in their under-con- 
sciousness though they may be incredulous on 
their objective side, are often instantaneously 
healed. There are many, however, who are 
not healed instantaneously of their chronic 
diseases who yet are ultimately cured, and who 
respond instantaneously and completely in 
cases of acute illness. 

When there has been long continued nega- 
tive emotion, such as overstrain, fear, anxiety, 
the temperament becomes changed, negative, 
as in neurotic cases, this then, must be made 
permanently normal. This is more or less a 
gradual process. 

The Master's mission was to people who 
could receive quickly. Of a certain commun- 
ity of an opposite type it was said, that "He 
could not there do many mighty works, because 



188 mind's silent partner 

of their unbelief/ ' This meditation bespeaks 
a fundamental change, not a surface healing, 
but something deeper which renders one less 
susceptible either to an old or a new kind of 
illness. 

The first idea is to ask for that which you 
want. ' ' That I may be made every whit whole 
in my feeling nature and in my form." This 
utterance is capable of superficial interpreta- 
tion and of calling out superficial healing, but 
it is also capable of a deeper interpretation 
and of fundamental healing. 

The one spoken of in the Scriptures who 
was made " every whit whole," received super- 
ficial and instantaneous healing which had 
little to do with regeneration. He was every 
whit incapacitated and was made whole, but 
the next moment he was liable to fall ig- 
norantly into the same or any other form of 
suffering. 

Our meditation voices a desire for a kind of 
healing which will ultimately do away with our 
ever again being incapacitated. We are ad- 
dressing ourselves to the Man-Entity within, 
to the Creative Spirit which has produced 
whatever we have in health and conditions, 



THAT I MAY BE MADE WHOLE 189 

according to our conscious or unconscious de- 
sire. Through ignorant desires we call upon 
the Creative Life to bring forth unwanted 
states. Desires, though unwholesome, are the 
essence of efforts to attain. Too often, also, 
we desire things we have not yet sufficient 
character to be able to use wisely, the posses- 
sion of which results in our undoing. For 
instance, a man may desire wealth, which may 
be the means of his ruin, owing to his lack of 
equipment in the knowledge needed to use it 
wisely. His character suffers as a result ; his 
evolution is interrupted, whereas a more grad- 
ual attainment of his desire and the experience 
connected therewith would have made his life 
successful. From the new order of self -con- 
sciousness will spring, not weeds, but flowers 
of character and consciousness. It is the feel- 
ing-nature that must give life to what comes 
forth, since feeling is the life of all things. If 
the feeling-nature be corrupt, pure expression 
can not evolve from it. The mind must 
be kept above feeling created in ignorance, 
and in touch with the higher Knowledge 
Source. 
Now the meditation, "That I may be made 



190 mind's silent partner 

every whit whole in my feeling-nature and in 
my form," expresses an earnest desire not only 
that healing may take place but that regenera- 
tion of consciousness may proceed. In this 
meditation we are asking for what amounts to 
a state of health that shall be permanent in us, 
embracing both mind and body ; it is addressed 
to the Master Within whose office is in the 
mind where Knowledge to develop our ideas is 
brought forth from Principle. Every medita- 
tion adds an increment of spiritual conscious- 
ness to the mind's record. The spirit of 
Knowledge is always subjective and never 
changes. 

Many different teachings affirm Wisdom, 
Health, Abundance, etc., as if they already 
had concrete place in the mind's conscious- 
ness. While these affirmations are true as to 
potentiality in Principle, they are not true as 
to fact and are, therefore, stultifying to the 
mind for that reason. It is better to bring 
about the desired condition through medita- 
tion, and with it, necessary knowledge of 
Principle. But the world's people has not yet 
developed in mind the working consciousness 
of this Truth or Principle that we so clearly 



THAT I MAY BE MADE WHOLE 191 

perceive to be essential. It is to induce a 
working knowledge of the Man-Principle 
above the threshold of subjectivity, that we 
take our meditations. 

"That I may be made every whit whole in 
my feeling-nature and in my form." Repeat 
the words with expectancy that the knowledge 
will be brought forth, that it will bring forth 
a new order of feeling that will be lodged in 
pneumatological cells of the brain prepared at 
the moment to hold the record. 

As a companion meditation, take the 
words : — 

"Thy faith is making thee entirely whole.' ' 

We have in our minds what we mean by this 
wholeness ; — an entire change, from the spirit 
of sense ranking first with us, to the Spirit 
of Knowledge being first. When Wisdom is 
active in the mind its movements in sense will 
be in correspondence to it. 

Since the Master taught that the mind must 
be born again, into a new Kingdom, that is, 
that it must possess its great creative Inher- 
itance directly from Principle, we do not ask 
for It as if we were begging. It is our Inher- 
itance, but we have to present our request just 



192 mind's silent paetner 

as we present a cheque at the bank in order to 
draw our supply. We need to proceed in our 
education through the Master within, day by 
day, just as is done in worldly education. The 
"day by day " of the Lord's Prayer is not alone 
for bread for the body, but for mental, self- 
conscious sustenance. 

The world appears to manifest more won- 
ders in its continued existence than man who 
has the use of it, since he is laid low or cut off 
without warning. By repeated meditation we 
store up gainings in Spiritual consciousness. 

St. Paul, when he fell into a trance, was not, 
as he apparently thought himself to be, regen- 
erated all in a moment. Eegeneration goes 
through processes of gestation in the brain, as 
generation goes through its processes in the 
organ prepared for it. In correspondence to 
the permanency of the pneumatalogical record 
or that generated in psychical life, does one 
continue or cease embodiment. 

"Thy faith is making thee every whit 
whole/ ' 

Imagine that the Divine Creative Spirit 
that goes on re-creating you while you sleep, 
is answering your desire. 



THAT I MAY GROW MORE CONSCIOUS 193 

Abide in the words every day. Set apart 
certain times for this each day and you will 
grow in wisdom, grow in knowledge of the 
Great Subjectivity within. 



a 



THAT I MAY GROW MORE AND MORE CONSCIOUS 
OF THE CREATIVE SPIRIT WITHIN ME" 



It has been said by scientists that this earth 
was once a molten mass, from which state it 
has gradually cooled down, the elements sep- 
arating and forming four divisions, earth, air, 
fire and water. 

If you recognise that generic man existed 
throughout, and that attending this molten 
mass was Principle in its entirety as it attends 
man to-day, that mind was in its most simple 
state of instinct, you will see that the instinct 
of Principle working within Principle, pro- 
duced all the phenomena of our present world. 
After the earth cooled down, individual man, 
the reason for the phenomena, began to appear. 
The instinct of Principle was working towards 
the end of producing individual Manhood in 
Self-consciousness. 



194 mind's silent partner 

Before man began to individualise, all the 
necessities for his existence, in terms of what 
we call elements, lay associated with the 
original molten mass. Individual man grad- 
ually came up through and out of this generic 
mass bringing all his mental necessities and 
supplies with him in soul and over-soul. 

You will perceive then, that before there 
was any order of self-conscious action in in- 
dividual mind, everything was in readiness 
and existed as 'Principle and Generic man 
housed together. 

Now all movements towards self-conscious- 
ness up to the time man became individualised 
in his organism, were between the Instinct of 
Principle and the resources of Principle. 
This is all that Instinctive, Generic Man was, 
and is, — the active Partner of Principle, and 
all that he had to work with. Thus everything 
done, up to the time of individualisation of 
Generic Man, was the result of the action of 
Principle within Its own resources, and must 
therefore have been nothing but Good. 

What we now call the chemical elements 
must have been the working elements of pure 
Principle, used by Instinctive Man as mani- 



THAT I MAY GROW MORE CONSCIOUS 195 

f esting elements for the purpose ultimately of 
attaining self-consciousness. This holds true 
if compared with the first chapter of Genesis, 
which describes ideal, self-conscious man com- 
ing straight from Principle. 

From the time personal man appeared, his 
emotions have related to his own idea of his 
personal self and his environment. Accord- 
ingly, our self-consciousness at the present 
time is founded only on an hypothesis of sense, 
and self -consciousness reduced to its lowest 
terms is simply emotion. 

For a long time, on the religious side of the 
equation, man has had the idea that he was 
conceived in sin and born in iniquity. David 
expressed two contradictory concepts. Once 
he said, "Behold, I was conceived in sin ..." 
and in another state of mind he said: — "Bow 
down thine ear O Lord, and hear me, preserve 
my soul for I am holy." 

All man's concepts of himself are founded 
upon nothing more than appearance unless he 
has entered the Divine Realm of Original 
Knowledge. 

All that lies below man's active self -con- 
sciousness, according to sense, is soul. When 



196 mind's silent partner 

we enter upon our existence in human life, we 
inherit in the cells of the brain all the activi- 
ties and emotions of the race, each individual 
being a replica of his ancestors. Each is as it 
were a walking planet, microscopical when 
compared to the universe, yet each is an epit- 
ome of Generic Man, and in pure Subjectivity 
is an individual member of the Trinity of 
Principle, — Principle, Action, Result, or, 
Principle, man the activity of Principle, and 
self-consciousness, the result of this activity. 
(Otherwise Principle would be impotent). 

Within our organisation we have That 
which gives us the use of the entire man — 
Principle as well as the race inheritance on 
which personal self-consciousness is founded. 
The latter ultimately leads personal man back 
to the ground, while Instinctive man abides in 
Principle. Thus we have to create a new or- 
der of conception of ourselves. 

By the term "oversoul" I mean the visible 
universe, all that we left of the elements of 
consciousness when we entered into personal 
existence; the dimensional realm apparently 
apart from ourselves, that from which the 
body is fed, from which the mind is stimulated 



THAT I MAY GROW MORE CONSCIOUS 197 

to action to do general exploits on the objec- 
tive side of existence. 

Our ordinary consciousness feeds on over- 
soul. The elements in their arrangement in 
what we call the universe provide food which 
acts as the building material for our bodies. 
We take our emotional experience from our 
environment also, by association with nature 
and human nature. 

Thus man lives and feeds his soul from the 
oversoul, of which every individual member of 
the race makes a part in so far as he is living 
according to sense and not coming into con- 
scious knowledge of Principle. 

The sun, moon, stars and earth are all 
contained in the oversoul. They belong to 
Omniscient Principle, though we know them 
only as translated into terms of sense, and not 
as they are in that which antedates objective 
existence. 

We have yet to learn that we are children of 
Knowledge; we have each a mind which con- 
stitutes our connection with the Man-Entity, 
and a faculty of the mind which is capable 
of translating instinct into intuition. This 
potentiality exists now, and we may begin to 



198 mind's silent partner 

enter into a new conception of ourselves in 
order to work out ultimately a Divine Self- 
consciousness, however many ages it may take, 
or whatever may befall on the way. 

St. Paul described death as the last enemy. 
Whether it takes billions of years to vanquish 
this last enemy matters not. It is Truth to act 
upon. Meanwhile we are to "grow stronger 
and stronger. ' ' "In the way of Eighteousness 
there is Life, and in the pathway thereof there 
is no death.' ' We are not enlarging upon this 
subject merely as theory but to bring it to 
practical use, to get the imagination stirred to 
Truth, that it may be free from claims of sense 
and seek for Light. 

It is clear that what we have just been say- 
ing is based upon the mind's conception of the 
universe and itself according to sense. It is 
inductive reasoning, and answers as a working 
theory of the limited objective life. It is a 
picture-story. It answers to the soul-life, and 
is true according to sense but is not the Truth 
of Man. It is a help along the way, the alpha- 
bet of self-consciousness. 

Man's conception of himself and his world 
is so ignorant that he has nearly blown the 



THAT I MAY GROW MORE CONSCIOUS 199 

earth to pieces. War and unrest are due to 
man's misconception of himself. 

The Master pointed the way to the realisa- 
tion of the Kingdom of Heaven while yet we 
are on earth ; and He showed that it could be 
attained in the existing organism ; that perfect 
man with perfect dominion over all the ele- 
ments could exist on earth and still remain in 
the same form. 

All creations of the mind are mental before 
being expressed physically, and all the activi- 
ties of Instinctive Manhood within bring 
health from its Source into mental and physi- 
cal expression. 

If the health we have had has become 
imperfect through wrong concepts and their 
ensuing emotions that we have admitted to the 
citadel of the mind where all these states 
originate, we have but to connect our minds 
with the Great Spirit within, through the 
means revealed to us by the Master, when the 
Principle of chemistry will carry out Its works 
according to Its Eighteousness, and behold, 
Health is come. 

"That I may grow more and more conscious 
of the Spirit of Health within me." 



200 mind's silent partner 



"THAT I MAY KNOW THE INFINITE SPIRIT 
WITHIN ME" 



Jesus said that to know God was Eternal 
Life. No kind of Knowledge is attainable all 
at once, though facts may be apprehended in a 
moment. Eternal Life for man is a knowl- 
edge of his Principle of Life. The Man Prin- 
ciple is to be known in order that man may 
fulfill his destiny of Eternal Life in self- 
consciousness and also that he may invoke it 
in time of need while on his way. 

There is a finite knowledge, which belongs 
to the sense state of consciousness. By this 
secondary finite knowledge the race has been 
able to perpetuate its existence and extend its 
scale of entertaining emotions. Life responds 
to faith or belief in whatever the mind accepts 
as truth or fact. There are ways of reasoning 
in relation to facts which answer ordinary 
purposes and which extricate one from present 
difficulties. 

The finite Spirit is the Spirit of humanity, 
this spirit is inherited by the individual, and 
is capable of being extended for a limited num- 



MY HEALTH PRODUCING POWER 201 

ber of years in each one. It is limited because 
the offices serving this purpose in the mind 
have only a certain duration of functioning 
with race-feeling. 

Meditative science introduces another order 
of schooling, another order of Knowledge, 
fundamental to man's existence and continu- 
ance in self-consciousness, which not only 
illumines the mind, but renews its offices, 
ultimately bringing man to the fulfilment of 
his Destiny as a Son of the Omniscient One. 

"I acknowledge Thee and Thee only, as my 
•Health-producing Power and Wisdom.' J 

"Thee" refers to the Heavenly Father 
within, the Creator of the original organisa- 
tion, Who also maintains it during the allot- 
ted time, it is under the dominion of a mind 
ignorant of its Principle. 

Another name for this Within is "Man- 
Entity," another is "Christ," another "Sub- 
jective Man." They are one and the same, 
and are included in the term "Heavenly 
Father." 

The knowledge of Christ will save us, but 
the mind has to mine out that Knowledge. In 



202 mind's silent partner 

the Spirit of such Knowledge man will live, 
and his bodily presentment will reflect the 
Knowledge-Life. Thus, by means of Knowl- 
edge, the soul is redeemed, that is, healed of 
conditions established through ignorance. 

What other can give health but That which 
produced the mind and the body with its orig- 
inal endowment of health? Health cannot 
come from without, it can only come from 
within. It is a question of inducing Creative 
action. 

A fixed state of belief in the Creative Spirit, 
the Heavenly Father within, as the willing 
Source of all health and healing, will induce 
creative action and healing. 

One may be in a state of disbelief at the mo- 
ment when illness is discovered, and may be 
engaged with any emotions but creative ones. 
In this case one must induce an acute belief 
in the Creative Power as being greater than 
the condition. If one is unable to enter into 
this state of belief, another may do so for him. 
Creative action is inspired by sympathy; ac- 
tivities going on in one who believes, will be 
induced in the other through sympathy be- 
tween Divine nature and Divine nature, just 



MY HEALTH PRODUCING POWER 203 

as corresponding states are induced sympa- 
thetically between human beings. 

To know the Infinite Spirit within is to have 
a store in the mind that will be an everlasting 
protection against disaster. All change that 
is made, is through bodily metabolism. It is 
all dependent upon the inducing of Creative 
action. In ignorant people a superstitious 
belief is often effective. People well trained 
and educated find it difficult to believe in a 
healing Power evokable from Within by a 
state of mind. 

Our meditation is for the purpose of induc- 
ing Faith, which may be awakened in one who 
sees the reasonableness of the ideas expressed. 
Faith belongs to the vital phenomena produc- 
ing Health. 

Subjective Man, Christ, uses the Principle 
of all Knowledge to heal as well as to produce. 
That which was created is under the care of 
its Creator, the Heavenly Father Within, but 
the conscious office must more or less co-oper- 
ate. There is but one way of establishing 
stable Health though there are many methods 
of inducing temporary and superficial cures, 
some being very primitive. 



204 mind's silent partner 

The true way was shown by the Master 
through words containing the Spirit of Truth 
and Knowledge as their vitalising power. 
Mundane words carry mundane emotions. 
Spiritual words are carriers of Principle, and 
bring It's Likeness forth, revealing It to the 
mind. 

We need time to educate ourselves into 
Faith that such words are harbingers of Eter- 
nal Life. Faith is the first movement towards 
bringing out the feeling that is housed in the 
words, be they words of soul or words of 
Spirit. The reason for the difference in the 
obtaining of spiritual as contrasted with psy- 
chological feeling is that we have so little 
in the spiritual record of the brain-cells com- 
pared with the record of the race-spirit. 

The Master's Teaching was expressed in 
words coined for the occasion, to convey 
Spiritual feeling. Such words contribute 
towards the blossoming out of the Christ 
above the threshold into personal expression, 
known and read of all men. 

"I acknowledge Thee and Thee only as my 
Health-producing Power and Wisdom." 



HOW THERE ARE NO POISONS 205 

HOW THERE ARE NO POISONS 

The mind has two Sources from whence to 
draw conceptions and objectify them, namely, 
Original Emotion, which is Man-Principle, 
and Self-Consciously acquired emotion, which 
is soul-emotion, of secondary dimensional 
existence. 

Man-Principle is Life to the mind, and 
through the mind It is emotive power to the 
soul-life. The mind is unconscious of its Life 
in Principle. It is conscious of its soul 
possessions, for it has created them and con- 
stantly lives in touch with them. Yet Prin- 
ciple, all in the dark to the mind, is its Life. 
There are no poisons or likenesses of poisons 
in Principle. All that we call poisons exist 
in human consciousness, in soul-life, in their 
primary state. Some of their names are sel- 
fishness, envy, jealousy, pride, malice, revenge, 
cruelty, avarice, etc. Their equivalents trans- 
lated into terms of over-soul, are the various 
poisons known in chemistry by familiar 
names. 

Poisons only exist in the mind's soul-life. 



206 mind's silent partner 

They are created of the mind through vain 
imaginations of sense and stored in the mind's 
soul-record. The counterpart of the mind's 
record of the master-soul-emotion exists in 
the mind's caravan of "nature" or over-soul, 
since nature is the generic soul and body out 
of which the personal soul came. 

To the mind awakened to the knowledge of 
the Principle, there can be no poisons. To 
the mind believing that it originates in "mat- 
ter," poisons are as real as is the mind itself. 

Bodily form represents a state of soul. Dis- 
integrating emotions, such as jealousy, pride, 
anger etc., function through the physical or- 
ganism, that is, these emotions embodied in 
cell-life, bring their correspondence into terms 
of blood. If not at the moment, in course of 
time, they produce chemical conditions in the 
body corresponding to the chemical poisons 
of the over-soul. The poisonous elements may 
induce an acute state, which, if they be not 
eliminated through a chemical bonfire — high 
temperature — or through a cataclysm that 
spends itself through the outlets of the body, 
would bring immediate and dire disaster. 
This cataclysm is usually called disease, but 



HOW THERE ARE NO POISONS 207 

in such case it is a life-saver. If, however, 
the same psychical state continue, though in 
less degree, it will still be represented in the 
incarnation, and what is called chronic disease 
results. Illness takes place, representing a 
state of mind of one ignorant of Truth, or one 
who gives way to ignorant mental states. One 
may indeed live many years with these states 
obtaining, but what a life! 

It is this ignorance of which one requires 
to be healed. If not healed, the fate embraced 
in ignorance leads the sinner back to the 
ground, the grave, since there is no life in ig- 
norance. The spirit of ignorance is just as 
much an emotion as is the spirit of intelligence 
in human experience, the difference being that 
the spirit of intelligence makes for comfort 
while the spirit of ignorance makes for dis- 
turbance. 

Intelligence in human life is fundamentally 
emotion, ignorance is also emotion. The one 
clears obstacles, the other makes them. The 
one breeds healthful emotions, the other 
breeds disturbing and disintegrating emo- 
tions. The one breeds beneficence, the other 
breeds malevolence in the organism. The one 



208 mind's silent partner 

breeds sustenance, the other breeds poison. 

In other words, the mind, in ignorance of 
its Principle, yet using It on premises of sense, 
generates soul-emotions, the correspondence 
of which appear in the over-soul as what we 
denominate poisons. These are simply a rep- 
lica of man's original dominant emotions. 
This unholy emotion under the law of incarna- 
tion, breeds a correspondence in soul-terms. 
Then, suddenly, or in process of time, war is 
declared on the normal first dimensional 
forces. The subjective Intelligence, the gen- 
eral presiding over incarnation, marshals his 
normal forces to eliminate the offending 
forces. Well-known disease flares up in bon- 
fire, fever, or the outlets of the body are in- 
volved in sudden cataclysm to eject the dis- 
turbing elements. Often there are " left- 
overs," which beget chronic conditions, for 
example colitis, auto-intoxication, rheuma- 
tism, etc. 

Let us now go back to the cause of all this 
suffering from the inner to the outermost of 
the dimensional realm. 

All unwittingly, man evokes action from his 
Principle of Being to clothe his temporary or 



HOW THERE ARE NO POISONS 209 

permanent idea of himself or another with the 
negatives of emotion ; this causes to be manu- 
factured sooner or later what is, to his ig- 
norant state, "poison," which has no poten- 
tiality in Principle. Through knowledge of 
his Instinctive Subjectivity, of Principle, or 
even an emotional belief in It, these fictions 
of his own making will pass away with all 
the attending conditions. 

Poisons in soul and over-soul are fictions of 
mental darkness, yet, while the mind is in this 
state of darkness, out of it comes self -invoked 
negative forces, — forces that must needs be 
reckoned with, since, race-created, the race 
believes in them to its destruction. 

Yet there are no poisons. "Ye shall drink 
any deadly thing and it shall not harm you," 
but you must believe, not alone intellectually 
but emotionally ; or, you must know Man-Prin- 
ciple. 

Poisons originate in false belief, in mortal 
sense. They have no existence in the mind's 
Source. The mind that is Master in the 
knowledge of its Principle will generate no 
poisons; will not be subject to poisons. 

To him who Knows, they do not exist. "If 



210 mind's silent partner 

ye abide in my words then are ye indeed my 
disciples, and ye shall know the Truth, and the 
Truth shall make you free." 



"THAT I MAY KNOW THE INFINITE GOODNESS 
WITHIN ME" 



We speak of the Infinite Spirit of Goodness 
which is different from the finite goodness that 
we understand. 

What representation have we of Infinite 
Goodness at hand to minister to us and give 
us Knowledge? 

We know that we have a finite spirit of 
goodness in us, because we ourselves are some- 
times kind, and sometimes behave so that 
others think us good. But we cannot always 
rely on ourselves to give forth such goodness 
as we from time to time express. Such good- 
ness is changeful and independable. It is 
born into momentary consciousness of the 
mind from the soul, from that human con- 
sciousness which plays a long gamut of many 
octaves, and which, whether it represents ex- 
treme positive, or extreme negative emotions, 



INFINITE GOODNESS WITHIN ME 211 

extreme happiness or extreme misery, is finite 
and secondary. That order of consciousness 
has no light directly from within itself; it 
knows only of light or life coming from 
sources made by itself and the race in its 
daily experience. 

A few years ago we could not have put our 
mental finger upon the meaning of Infinite 
Spirit as related directly to ourselves. We 
could only speak the words in the dark, as it 
were. Now we can express definitely what 
Infinite Spirit is and how closely It is related 
to our minds, and this great step has been 
taken within a few decades. Perhaps it has 
not definitely been brought out till very lately. 
I do not know that I have ever heard the term 
" Creative Spirit" used as in association with 
our own minds within until it came forth out 
of meditation. 

"Thou my Creative Spirit art Goodness 
Supreme within me." This Creative Spirit 
is closely associated with our minds and with 
our bodies. We can understand what Crea- 
tive Spirit means to us because we know that 
we were created in a little more than mi- 
croscopical form of our present embodiment 



212 mind's silent paetnee 

and that the creative process was continued 
from within, without our knowledge, until 
finally we were ready to come forth into con- 
scious existence. Likewise Spirit continues to 
create and re-create for us day by day at the 
instance of our desire. 

The mind has a creative Principle to which 
it can always turn for images and likenesses 
of Principle that it may wish to bring forth 
and fashion in the elements for personal use 
in objective life. Each individual member of 
the race has this Creative Spirit, it is just a 
question of making use of It. One is in a state 
of evolution where one may use It to great 
purpose at a moment's call. Another member 
of the race is in a state where he must strug- 
gle for It, but it is there all the time awaiting 
the mind's development. It is an Inheritance 
of all, just as the principle of numbers be- 
longs to the race yet individuals vary in their 
development of its use. 

We have assembled ourselves together in 
order to develop this great Creative Spirit 
within for our own ends of self-conscious liv- 
ing. We are here to develop the Spirit of 
Omniscience into the self-consciousness of the 



INFINITE GOODNESS WITHIN ME 213 

mind. We know there is a Principle of Life 
which is abstract to us, just as we know there 
is a principle of numbers. Just as the prin- 
ciple of numbers is related to the mind before 
it is extended into our kingdom of sense, so 
the Instinctive Man-Principle of Life starts 
Its operations in the mind and extends them 
into the domain of the sensorium. Is there 
any opposite principle to the Man-Principle ? 
Is there any opposite to the principle of num- 
bers ? There is a state of not knowing either 
of these, but this is simply a lack of Knowl- 
edge, a void. There is a mental state of not 
knowing Principle, or Good, when the mind 
functioning the Life-Principle ignorantly pro- 
duces "evil" conditions in its consciousness, 
which, however, Knowledge of its Principle 
will dispel. The way to know It is open and 
we are associated for the purpose of knowing 
It, of developing the Spirit of Life, and thus 
perpetuating the offices of self-conscious- 
ness. 

"Thou my Creative Spirit art Health Su- 
preme within me." 

Health is a mental state existing in the ab- 
stract in the Man-Principle ready to be called 



214 mind's silent partner 

forth into terms of self-conscious enjoyment. 
Its domain is extended into the offices of the 
sensorium and is then manifested as so called 
physical health. Health is spoken of as phys- 
ical because of its association with the body, 
but its real meaning is perfect health of the 
mind's emotional consciousness extending into 
the domain of bodily activities. 

Pure Wisdom finds its equivalent in terms 
of physical perfection. Each member of the 
race, with regard to his consciousness, is an 
incarnating plant or mental workshop, estab- 
lished for the purpose of incarnating his men- 
tal activities in terms of brain cells and ulti- 
mately in bodily states. 

Now in our meditation "Thou my Creative 
Spirit art Health Supreme within me," we 
are acknowledging this Creative Spirit in dis- 
tinction from the soul feeling which is born of 
the mind's contact with environment. By 
means of such meditations Spirit feeling is 
brought from Its Source into the terms of 
mental life, which means a Knowledge of our 
creative Omniscience. It is this Knowledge 
that is to give perennial health to such mem- 
bers of the race as elect to receive it. Accord- 



INFINITE GOODNESS WITHIN ME 215 

ing to the state of the incarnating plant, men- 
tal or emotional health will have its represen- 
tation in what we call physical life. Health 
needs to obtain in the mind and to be expressed 
through the physical-elements before it can 
show forth in self -consciousness ; or in other 
words it must have inter relationship with the 
elements that are really spiritual, though we 
can see them through the lens of sense and in- 
terpret them as chemical elements, as matter. 
All that is truly unreal about these elements 
when recognized at their Source in Man-Prin- 
ciple is the race interpretation of them, look- 
ing upon life as coming forth from cells al- 
ready established rather than as coming forth 
from the mind as knowledge and afterwards 
being established as cells. That Knowledge is 
not recognized because It is Subjective. We 
say "I grew up" as if Life or Principle were 
not involved in all growth. 

The mind has not learned how to make use 
of the Principle of its existence in order to 
continue its offices in self -consciousness. The 
Spirit of Health as related directly to our 
minds, will teach us, and we shall grow into 
the dignity of a Health which will involuntar- 



216 mind's silent partner 

ily be called forth in its own primary terms 
of mind, so that Health in the mental offices 
may find its equivalent in the chemistry of 
blood and flesh. Let us acknowledge this in 
our meditation, repeating the words whilst the 
conceiving powers of the mind unfold their 
spirit. For from whatsoever realm of con- 
sciousness words come forth, they contain the 
spirit of that realm. 

There are two well-springs of emotion from 
which the mind can draw. We are accustomed 
to draw from the one that relates us to the 
world as we see it. That is the well-spring of 
the soul, the ignis f atuus of the mind. When 
the mind learns to draw from the other well- 
spring, that of the Creative Spirit of the Man- 
hood Principle, it will bring forth likeness to 
Principle in condition of mind, body and 
affairs just as it does in its other hemisphere 
of science and art. 

The power of knowing the Eealm of the 
Infinite is latent in the race. The mind is 
capable of bringing forth, when it really sets 
to work to learn the way, a transcendental 
Knowledge of Life, instead of remaining in 
the personal and sense-feeling of what it calls 



DIVINE SUBJECTIVE MAN 217 

life, without knowing anything whatever of 
Life Itself. 

When this wisdom is known, we shall be 
able to deal with the facts of personal ex- 
perience wisely. We shall cognise and han- 
dle them all by Knowledge from our Source 
upon which we have learned to draw at will. 

"Thou my Creative Spirit art Health Su- 
preme within me," 



"oh thou divine subjective man, omnis- 
cience WITHIN, REVEAL THINE OMNISCIENT 
SPIRIT TO THY SELF-CONSCIOUS CREATION, 
THAT I MAY ENTER NOW WHILE ON EARTH 
INTO MY BIRTHRIGHT OF DIVINE LIFE, HEALTH 
AND WISDOM" 

Every human being is endowed with Divine 
Subjective Manhood. This is the Within, the 
Potentiality of Christhood. This Potential- 
ity is capable of being extended to the plane 
of self-consciousness through the agency of the 
mind, which It has created and officed to that 
end. 

The first birth of the mind is into soul and 



218 mind's silent partner 

sense. The second is to be into Knowledge 
and Life. The transition is to take place 
through the medium of the faculty of Intui- 
tion, which translates the Resources of pure 
Subjective Manhood into the mental terms of 
self-consciousness. Instinctive Manhood has 
therefore established a connection through 
which the second birth may take place at the 
mind's desire. The second order of conscious- 
ness thus constructed shall not only be founded 
upon Manhood Principle, but be a translation 
of It into mental terms. 

The purpose is that ultimately the mind may 
consciously possess the Spirit of its Creator, 
that it may use this Knowledge in its affairs 
of self-conscious life with all the Wisdom that 
is contained in the pure Subjectivity of Man; 
that it may be conscious of the Spirit of God ; 
that this Spirit may be translated into the 
mind's self-conscious activities. 

We are aware that the personality is not 
the man, that all his daily experiences do not 
constitute the man. We know also that the 
endowment bestowed by the race can only be 
its own experiences of joy or suffering. All 
that we call God cannot be discovered in the 



DIVINE SUBJECTIVE MAN 219 

body. All that we know as man cannot be 
found in the body, naught but signs of the 
One and the other appear, since what is called 
"mind" and what is called "God" do not 
appear. 

The first movement instinct ultimating in a 
newly born member of the race is instinctive 
feeling. The very fact that this new member 
is the result of this feeling shows that the crea- 
tion of the child was the idea back of the 
feeling notwithstanding the objective state of 
consciousness of the individuals concerned in 
it, their desire for or against the creative in- 
tent. 

This means that the feeling in this cast, or 
seed, of race experience, which represents an 
idea, uses the cast as material with which to 
build up an order of consciousness. As the 
emotional life of the race is according to sense, 
the chemical elements are employed to form 
what we know as body. 

Every seed, including the seed of man him- 
self, has within it the full potentiality of all 
that may be developed out of it. If ever a 
Christ is to be born, if ever man is to be illu- 
minated with the Spirit of Knowledge, the 



220 mind's silent partner 

urge in that direction lies in the potentiality 
of the seed. 

Thus the Truth taught by the Master, Him- 
self a member of the race, revealed that which 
must have been lying in the potentiality of the 
race. "The words I speak unto you, they are 
Spirit, they are Life," because they contain 
the revealment of the way to become conscious 
of Spirit or Omniscience. They are seeds of 
Subjective Knowledge destined ultimately to 
be translated into terms of mental life. 

We use in our meditations about a dozen 
word seeds that are endowed with the Spirit 
of Ominscience. They are, Principle, Life, 
Spirit, Goodness, Substance, Truth, Kight- 
eousness, Wisdom, Faith, Health, Love, Om- 
nipotence, Omniscience. These need only to 
fall into the right soil of the mind in order to 
come to fruitage. Here are perfectly thrill- 
ing words in which lies the Spirit by which 
worlds are framed, by which all the architec- 
ture of the earth has been brought forth. 

"Oh, Thou Divine Subjective Man." That 
means the potential Christ in each one, the 
Heavenly Father dwelling within, who created 



DIVINE SUBJECTIVE MAN 221 

the mind out of His Instinct of Principle and 
officed it with all the bodily structures. 

This is the Consciousness we seek, and we 
seek it in the way pointed out by the Master, 
the way of abiding in words of Truth. "If 
ye continue in My words, then are ye My dis- 
ciples indeed, and ye shall know the Truth 
and the Truth shall make you free. This 
Knowledge shall make you free of all that en- 
slaves you, which, in one word, is ignorance of 
Me." This is the regeneration. 

"Oh, Thou Divine Subjective Man, Instinct 
with Omniscience within, reveal Thine Om- 
niscient Spirit to Thy self-conscious creation, 
that I may enter now into my birthright of 
Life, Health and Wisdom. " 



222 mind's silent partner 



"THAT I MAY KNOW THE SPIRIT OP TRUTH 
WITHIN ME" 



The mind has proceeded directly from Prin- 
ciple and is the agent of the Spirit of Knowl- 
edge on the self-conscious side of existence. 
It is in touch with the Almighty and has full 
dominion over all created things. Its domin- 
ion is a peaceful one, not one of force, and is 
held through the power of its existence as 
Agent or representative of the Principle of 
all Knowledge. 

Everything in objective form is capable of 
losing all its properties according to sense by 
virtue of the mind's knowing it as it is in 
Truth. That is, the mind in that case would 
be free and untrammelled in dealing with the 
world as we perceive it through the senses. 

This is not a dogmatic statement. Every- 
thing existing in the objective world has 
existed in a pre-physical state. Mind, dis- 
abused of sense emotions and lighted with the 
Knowledge Spirit, may have a Master's 
dominion over all things by virtue of its own 
knowledge. 



SPIBIT OP TRUTH WITHIN ME 223 

The chemical elements are obedient to the 
mind Principle that they manifest, and any 
mind knowing these elements of Principle as 
they are on the pre-mental side of existence, 
before they were translated into terms of 
sense, may do with them as it wills, notwith- 
standing the form they have taken to the mind 
viewing them through the darkness of the 
senses. 

Matter is not dense. The mind is deluded, 
not knowing the chemical elements at their 
Source as manifestations of Principle. It is 
good to get a realisation of this Truth because 
it makes our living easy. 

In the first chapter of Genesis both man and 
the universe were spoken of as perfect. Man 
in his present embodiment was created in the 
following order : first, he was not clothed with 
the elements, in other words, he was in a men- 
tal state, a perfect image or correspondence of 
Omniscient Principle, a likeness of that which 
was to come forth clothed with the dust of 
the ground. It has been commonly believed 
that man is a separate creation, apart from 
all things else ; that the earth was made ready 
for him in every sense, that he came as some- 



224 mind's silent partner 

thing distinct from the earth though living 
upon it. But the earth was with man, man 
was with the earth, both together in a pre- 
mental, pre-physical state, both appeared to- 
gether in man's first conscious state. 



THE OVER SOUL 
INTRODUCTION TO THE FOURTH DIMENSION 

Genesis I tells of man being perfect. Gen- 
esis II tells how the "Lord God created man 
out of the dust of the ground' ' and man stood 
up at one with the physical universe, weighing 
so many pounds of the earth elements. All 
this that we count as the world, as apart from 
man, was like man himself, a soul to come into 
terms of body in all the earth elements. Had 
man been named at that time one would have 
said he was generic soul. Through periods of 
ages, when he came forth from the ground and 
began to stand upright, he carried with him 
all the elements of the earth and all the Prin- 
ciple of Creation. Mentality cannot be burned 
with fire. This planet is of fire, and man as 
a generic human soul, has the perfect poten- 
tiality of knowing that which was behind the 



THE OVERSOUL 225 

totality of all the elements of the earth. 
What we call the over-soul, the external uni- 
verse inherited by man, is only that which was 
left over when primitive man rose up into his 
present form, when the "Lord God," that is, 
his Divine Nature, clothed him in the ele- 
ments. From that time when he came up out 
of the ground the whole caravan of the uni- 
verse came with him to answer to his states 
of consciousness while living a life in igno- 
rance of his Creative Spirit within. 

So man may now, in his present embodi- 
ment of the elements, be said to be an epitome 
of all that is represented by what we know as 
the elements. 

Feeling always precedes form. Subjective 
Feeling, — Creative Spirit, ante-dates form, as 
It created form. 

The feeling called soul was made through 
the mind's contact with the elements. This 
feeling ante-dates self -consciousness of a per- 
sonal order. From feeling, the instinct with- 
in, Man brought forth the human organism. 
The self-consciousness we have as we open our 
eyes in a world made by the preceding race, 
is all the feeling we have so long as we inter- 



226 mind's silent partner 

pret things after the manner of our ancestors. 
The objective universe, which we count to be 
natural from a sense standpoint, has -also a 
divine relationship to the mind. Believing 
this, understanding and acting upon it, we 
may in development enter the realm which 
ante-dates race-experience, the Realm of 
Christ Subjectivity. The race experience is 
the only element in the whole objective appear- 
ance of things that does not come directly from 
Creative Principle. Human feeling, through 
the whole gamut of emotion, is created accord- 
ing to the conceptions of the individual mind. 
Two people get different emotions from the 
same experience, according to their interpre- 
tation. One may be in misery whilst another 
feels joy in the same circumstances. Such 
conceptions of the mind, springing from our 
human feeling, are all that is wrong in the 
whole realm of our ordinary living. 

Just as all inventions are ante-dated in their 
objective appearance by mental terms in 
Principle, so Creative Feeling ante-dated the 
appearance of man's organism. But man 
cannot find his Principle through physical 
means. Until his mind comes into the knowl- 



THE OVERSOUL 227 

edge of That from which it takes its rise in 
the mental realm, he can have little conception 
of what the world really is. iln the state of 
experience in which one's mind is in touch with 
Original Feeling in the mental realm corre- 
sponding to what is now called matter, one 
may be master purely by the mind. Speaking 
mentally, matter has no existence below the 
threshold of self-consciousness, where all is 
subjectively Mental. 

Every form of what we call matter has some 
order of soul. Man exists, objectively speak- 
ing, in his present state of consciousness by 
means of the over-soul out of which he came ; 
he must therefore, apply to the elements for 
food. 

Man's soul is produced by the mind's action 
from premises of sense ; it is vital to him but 
is not the last word. It is a beginning but it 
has no primary touch with Life and Knowl- 
edge. 

Soul emotions are created by our belief in 
what we perceive through our different senses 
as being reality so far as this life is concerned. 
We spend our days with environment and the 
personality of things, and make no scientific 



228 mind's silent partner 

effort to get into touch with the Creative 
Spirit which preceded mind. While the soul 
still has a body and is attended by the mind 
through which it can be changed, the mind 
should recognise its connection with its Source, 
and call forth from its Source creative action 
to that end. 

Mind and Principle being one and being 
first essentials to all manifestations in self- 
consciousness, mind must have dominion over 
all things, and therefore should have dominion 
over the soul. The mind has not entered into 
that dominion, which is not one of force but of 
Knowledge. As Knowledge comes the soul 
will be cleansed until that which we believe 
in as real, vital, fundamental to us, ceases to 
exist. By the Light of Knowledge all that is 
untrue is flashed out of existence and we shall 
change from living soul, to living Spirit, as 
our beliefs change from what is untrue to a 
knowledge of that which is true and Eternal. 

When we are born into the Kingdom of 
Knowledge and the secondary death-bound 
emotions are dissolved to let in the Light, we 
shall see what we now describe as matter from 
a transcendental view-point. We have spoken 



THE OVERSOUL 229 

of the soul as being that which determines the 
nature of the mass that mind concretes in the 
form of body or matter. 

It is the soul-feeling that needs regenera- 
tion, by the mind's being enlightened from its 
Source, in order that man may live the divine 
Life on earth. 

That .which we call our soul has come 
through fire and earth. The over-soul is the 
soul of generic humanity seen in the terms of 
objects. The soul of an object is its intent, 
its mission, the service it has to perform. 

The naturet of a soul is according to its 
purpose in the world. Generic man is a 
transitional means of attaining to divine Self- 
conscious Manhood. 

A plant has no mind, no means of self-con- 
sciousness, but it has a psyche out of which 
cells are constantly born. This constitutes its 
feeling as a plant. It has no existence in it- 
self but is part of the caravan of man which 
he brought with him to minister to his needs. 
The over-soul constantly changes in different 
vicissitudes of the continuing creation of the 
earth, representing the fluctuating emotional 
life of individual man. It is not apart from 



230 mind's silent partner 

the soul of man but is that which is left over 
to minister to his objective state. 

The over-soul supplies his entertainment 
and his necessities for the time being, but it is 
man's own conception and creation and will 
change as man changes. It is all conceived in 
the state of consciousness called man much as 
pictures are conceived in films and manifested 
on a screen through a suitable instrument. 
Man's instrument is the sensorium. The 
pictured screen is his environment as it 
appears to him in accordance with the pictures 
that exist for the moment in his mind. The 
relatively stable pictures that have been con- 
ceived in the mind of the race concerning the 
universe, hold their place until other pictures 
are born through advancing knowledge, so that 
human beings see the objective environment 
of the universe within the fixed scale of 
humanity's development. This fixed universe 
changes, as has been said, in appearance and 
qualities with man's advancing knowledge. 

The soul is the first dimension of matter 
and governs the destiny of the three further 
dimensions. It is, so to speak, the mentality 
and the cause lying concealed in the three 



THE 0VERS0UL 231 

further dimensions. The body is born out of 
soul feeling into terms of sense. Feeling that 
is born of Knowledge changes the aspect of 
things to the mind. Soul is a state of be- 
coming, of movement towards the Spirit of 
Knowledge. In spiritual man the senses will 
not cease to exist but will become the instru- 
ments of Knowledge, reflecting It in the over- 
soul embodiment of nature. Instinct produced 
soul first. The body comes into manifestation 
out of the resources of the soul. Each his- 
tological unit of the universe may be seen as 
it is in Reality on the causal side of the mind, 
clothed in spirit rather than soul. 

The value of this view of the first dimension 
is that it helps us to come more and more into 
the Spirit of Life within us, to be less and less 
thralled with the things of sense life, more en- 
lightened and heartened by the things that are 
real. 

Growing thus we shall be able to enter into 
the state wherein all forms of consciousness 
not in harmony with our development of Spir- 
itual Knowledge will pass away. 

Feeling always ante-dates form, whether of 
man's body or of the material universe. Get 



232 mind's silent partner 

into league with the Spirit of Truth and 
this first dimension will change and take on 
such form and activity as the mind in the 
sanity of Knowledge desires. 

Healing will be easily recognized as possible 
for any one to accomplish, either of one's self 
or of another. 

We develop feeling during meditation. 
Meditative feeling is treasure in Heaven stored 
in the form of brain-bodies. The mind when 
pervaded by a consciousness of Principle, will, 
when in touch with another in trouble or ill- 
ness, feel the state of the other. As the mind 
of the one in meditation rises into the realm 
where Eighteousness is, that one's conscious- 
ness will feel emotional changes taking place, 
as conditions lighten in the other. As changes 
take place in the state of darkness, or un- 
toward and unhelpful emotions, Light springs 
up into the minds of both, and in the patient a 
change of consciousness from discomfort to 
comfort, from illness to health. This is Di- 
vine Healing. 



THE OVERSOUL 233 

"THAT I MAY KNOW THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH 
WITHIN ME" 

Looking back upon our original Source, we 
have Principle, the First, the Omniscience, 
containing within Itself all the potentialities 
of existence in terms other than Itself. 

This potentiality is Generic Christ, to be 
brought to birth and ultimated as individual 
Christs, founded in Principle, as the active 
members of that Trinity of Principle, Action, 
Eesult. 

Individual man therefore takes his rise in 
Divine Subjective Manhood, instinct with the 
Knowledge-Principle in which He dwells. 
The other terms in which the potentiality of 
individual manhood is to exist, are those 
of self -consciousness of sense and of Spirit, 
Creative Spirit, so that ultimately there 
shall be absolute oneness between the con- 
sciousness of the mind and the Man-Creative- 
Spirit which gives birth to the mind. In- 
dividual Subjective Man, acting upon the 
potentiality of self-consciousness, prepares an 
organism to that end. He has no other source 
to draw upon for his working-knowledge and 



234 mind's silent partner 

the expression thereof, save the Creative 
Spirit in which he dwells, and in which all 
potentiality exists. 

So all movements of Instinctive Man to- 
wards the fulfilling of his destiny are based 
on the Eternal Verity, He prepares a sense 
organism for experience, and all goes well 
until self-consciousness of an initial order is 
attained through this secondary dimensional 
organism. Now the mind is destined ulti- 
mately to enter into consciousness of its Cre- 
ative Source. At present man enters into self- 
consciousness through the medium of the 
secondary office which he has created — a self- 
consciousness produced by the mind's contact 
with the environment it has devised through 
the mechanism of sense. Through the lenses 
of sense, that which exists in mental terms 
below the threshold of cognition appears to 
objective man to exist in formal objects apart 
from himself. 

Man knows nothing of the process by which 
he came forth, and he goes forward in the 
darkness so far as self-consciousness is con- 
cerned. He makes movements in the sec- 
ondary realm created through his organism 



THE OVERSOUL 235 

according to sense-consciousness instead of the 
consciousness of That with which he must 
learn to co-operate, in order that he may con- 
tinue to live. 

The mind must therefore be lighted from 
the Eealm that exists below the threshold of 
man's present recognition, in order that he 
may interpret that which he is now interpre- 
ting according to sense, in terms of the mental 
Source of man and his world, that the Real 
and Eternal World may be truly expressed in 
secondary life rather than as it appears to be 
apart from its Source. 

All that Instinctive Man worked out by 
means of the Creative Spirit was perfect and 
deathless. But when personal self-conscious- 
ness was attained, man began working upon 
other premises than those of the Creative 
Spirit. Here is the origin of what is known 
as good and evil. It is impossible to find any- 
thing of the likeness of evil or of finite good, 
both of which are passing states, in the 
Creative Source. 

When man looks out on his world and begins 
to judge by appearance, knowing nothing of 
his Divine Origin and destiny, he begins to 



236 mind's silent partner 

create an association, not with the Truth of 
Principle, but with the facts of his environ- 
ment as he interprets them. All emotions 
called forth from such premises are funda- 
mentally wrong, but useful and necessary as 
the first stage of experience. It is not that the 
world is wrong, or that what we call evil is 
wrong. The wrong is in our conception of 
ourselves and the world apart from their Cre- 
ator. 

The over-soul supplies the necessities of 
man's soul life, both mental and physical. 
All this power of expression belongs to Prin- 
ciple. 

In our undeveloped state the mind is kept 
in its offices through the medium of its soul- 
emotion which, relatively speaking, is life for 
the moment. 

To get the mind into contact with any form 
of matter so that it may know its own silent 
Life-Principle, is to free it from the Adam 
procedure in handling matter. 

While we are coming to know the world and 
ourselves, we have to use fire and other means 
to liberate the force embodied in matter. One 
touch of the mind's Creative Spirit Within, 



THE OVERSOUL 237 

would do this, did we but know how to unite 
with the Principle, the Fundamental Cause of 
things, 

The forces in any kind of matter lie in its 
soul ; cohesion is one of the most easily recog- 
nised of these forces. Full knowledge of this 
first dimensional force will give the key to 
dealing with matter mentally. 

The intent of any created thing clothed with 
the elements governs its material properties, 
which are reflexes of the soul of individual 
man in the over-soul for his use while in that 
state. The universe is the over-soul in which 
we objectively live, but the whole emotional 
life of it is contained within the mind's offices. 
When man's Knowledge-control extends to 
his own self, his own feeling, the material 
universe will answer to his behests. 

All that holds the over-soul together, viewed 
according to sense, all force as we interpret it, 
in order to be subject to our handling, must 
be of a nature to fit in with our own state of 
development. So long as man remains under- 
developed and unconscious of his birthright, 
so long will his material world remain in its 
present state of relation to him. 



238 mind's silent paetner 

When the spirit of transcendental Knowl- 
edge, at present below the threshold of the 
mind's consciousness, is clearly revealed, man 
will enter into his dominion over all the 
elements. That dominion will be mental and 
not Adam-like. 

Let us remember that nothing was done 
excepting through and by Subjective Man's 
Instinctive knowledge of Principle until the 
mind entered into this transitional state of 
self-consciousness. From this state has come 
our interpretation of our inner world as we see 
it, in its objective expression. But all the 
Original Power of Knowledge in the Trinity 
of Man-Principle is ready to yield Itself to the 
mind's use, at the urge of our desire. We are 
so fixed with the hypnotisation of sense that 
we are unable to get above our inherent race 
and personal conceptions. 

When Knowledge of our source blossoms 
into the fulness of Divine Manhood, we will be 
living in an infinitely greater world, yet the 
change will be in our conception. New con- 
ception re-creates. All the wrong in the world 
is caused by the mind's deception in regarding 
the dust of the ground as its source rather 



THE OVERSOTJL 239 

than Omniscient Principle, and by its appeal 
to the elements, or matter for continuance of 
life and health rather than to That which 
brought man forth. Objects that we see in our 
world of sense, exist in mind and in Principle 
in quite another state. Man's individual ob- 
jective world is created to himself by his 
mind's interpretation of its feeling when func- 
tioning through the senses, while ignorant of 
its Source, in pure Emotion-Substance, Omnis- 
cient Principle, man's Kingdom Within. Of 
these daily emotions man's soul is constituted. 
The world and man as they exist in Emotion- 
Substance, will be disclosed as the mind 
becomes accustomed to interpreting feeling, 
while in association with its Creator within, 
through abiding in the words of the Master. 

Man's conception of his environment as 
Eeality would be true, did he know it in 
Original terms, before the mind conceived it 
in sense terms. His mind, however, acting 
upon the hypothesis of sense conception, has 
founded an emotional existence apart from 
his Source. Thus he fails to recognise Cre- 
ative-Spirit by which he lives. 

Accordingly we have what we call matter, 



240 mind's silent partner 

which in its elements of Principle is Real. 
But the mind's conception of matter is at 
variance with its origin in Omniscience, and 
also with the view-point that the mind, so to 
speak, is an agency of the Creative-Spirit, 
a delegate from the Knowledge-Substance 
through which Knowledge Itself is to be re- 
vealed as man's dependable resource, rather 
than the transitory resource of the over-soul. 
Evil did not arise out of good ; it is a state of 
becoming, and has no reality in primary, un- 
lived Life. It has no grounds for existence 
except as it is the outcome of man's self 
created emotion, soul-life. Ignorant states 
will pass as the mind makes use of the great 
Spirit of Knowledge, which is to be induced 
through the Man-Entity within. To-day 
there are those of the race who are coming to 
the point where they can begin to call forth 
this Knowledge. Everything Eternal is now 
and is Good, but it must be apprehended by 
the mind from its spiritual heights, in the 
same way as the use of Principle has already 
been apprehended from intellectual heights of 
perception, for uses in science and art. We 
are to live in a new environment of the mind's 



OVER-SOUL, FIRST-DIMENSION 241 

own conception from out its Birthright of 
Omniscience. We have not yet experienced 
or expressed the Knowledge of that Creative 
Spirit to the ends of our own existence. Now 
we are to begin to realise the resources of the 
mind in the Spirit of Knowledge, it's Father. 



THE FIRST DIMENSION OF MATTER 

This leads us to the consideration of a most 
interesting and practical subject, one upon 
which mathematicians have long speculated, 
and which just now has been revived with in- 
creasing vigor, namely the fourth dimensional 
realm of matter. 

I should like to explain that in taking up 
the subject of the fourth dimensional realm 
of the mathematicians, I am but developing 
the idea to a point of usefulness in its bearing 
on Spiritual Illumination and Healing. I am 
not by any means attempting to treat the 
subject technically, as my special activities do 
not lie in the field of mathematics. 

Since the order of evolution of dimensions 
has been disclosed we will hereafter speak of 



242 mind's silent partner 

the fourth dimension as the first dimension, 
for it is here that quickening takes place, 
resulting in cell-births which complete the 
evolution of the dimensional body. 

The Man-Principle contains within Itself, 
Subjective-Man, Potential Christ, the active 
member of the trinity of Principle, Instinct 
with Omniscience, 

Through Man's Instinctive action toward 
self-consciousness, what we know as mind has 
come into existence, the medium through 
which man's consciousness of a transitional 
order is created. Individual Man now, though 
subjectively instinct with the All-Spirit of 
Creative-Knowledge, sees and judges of him- 
self, his environment, and his Principle, 
through the medium of the senses, as if he 
were a child of the elements, or matter, rather 
than of Omniscient Principle, his true Father. 
His present consciousness is a sequence of this 
untrue conception. Man then, while Instinct 
with Omniscience in his Subjective existence, 
is in the alphabet of his learning as to his 
divine origin and the transitional order of his 
present consciousness. When we speak here 
of the first or primary dimension of matter, 



OVER-SOUL, FIRST-DIMENSION 243 

we mean that out of which the three further 
dimensions, length, breadth and thickness are 
evolved, the birthplace of the so-called visible 
matter, the soul, of which body is the visible 
counterpart. This material state is necessary 
to man so long as he must depend in struggling 
with his environment on the mind's observa- 
tion through the senses. 

It will be remembered that, scientifically, 
matter is defined as that which can be weighed, 
measured, multiplied, divided, and occupies 
space. It has the properties of penetrability, 
divisibility, and inertia; that is, it is subject 
to man's dominion. It is inert, helpless; the 
mind consciously equipped with Principle is 
always master of it. 

This is a materialistic definition, but mind, 
functioning of itself, independent of sense, 
transcends all limitations of sense, and has no 
relation to weight, time or space. When in 
action thus the mind not only handles its own 
Subjectivity of Principle with accuracy, but 
also environment according to sense, regard- 
less of material limits, as it is often conscious 
of that which is taking place innumerable 
miles away. 



244 mind's silent paetnek 

The mind does not realise its power to 
handle the density it calls matter, without 
" sweat of the brow." It believes that the 
reality of hard bodies lies in their resistance, 
whereas the mind has the potentiality of call- 
ing the Truth of Being and expression to its 
aid, and of solving problems of soul and over- 
soul by the Light of the Causal Principle 
alone. 

In what we know as chemical elements the 
only thing that is unreal is their force. The 
mentality by which the mass was constituted 
is the only reality. We do not recognise the 
activity of mind and its Principle involved in 
it all. 

Now this knowledge of the first dimension 
will be most useful to us in our own develop- 
ment when we recognise that mind has the 
mastery of all matter, because it is able to get 
into touch with the mentality of the secondary 
things of sense and the primary emotion 
of the great Principle by which these things 
exist. 

To have such knowledge about the proper- 
ties of matter, to get into our minds an 
understanding of the intelligence of matter on 



OVER-SOUL, FIRST-DIMENSION 245 

its plane — feeble though it be, — would give 
the mind power to realise Wisdom in the 
handling of it. 

The first dimension is, so to speak, the life 
of material substance (really, however, there 
is no soul-life unless Principle and mind 
attend, to energise and lead the dimensional 
realm) . The mind's office is to call out the ac- 
tivities of Principle. Principle and mind are 
fundamental to all existence. 

Just to the extent that different qualities 
obtain in the first dimension of any form of 
matter, will it be dense or volatile, brittle or 
well-nigh unbreakable, solid, fluid or gaseous. 
The soul or first dimension, which holds to- 
gether the cell-mass, must be disturbed before 
any activity can take place in visible dimen- 
sions. Heat is often a last resort to make a 
disturbance effective in reducing the most 
refractory solid and so liberating its first 
dimensional qualities, bringing the same to a 
measurable state. For example, it will be 
remembered that the diamond resisted all 
attempts at liquefaction before the days of 
electricity. However it yielded up its stub- 
born spirit to the intensity of electric heat. 



246 mind's silent partner 

One might in this connection mention some 
of the first dimensional qualities recognised 
in the various forms of matter, cohesion, 
attraction, repulsion, flavour, odour and so 
forth. It is soul that gives birth to body 
through the instinctive activities of Principle 
in the over-soul. It should be recognised that 
the soul of man is fed from the over-soul. The 
visible dimensions do not constitute the food 
but rather the residue. Therefore when one 
takes food the soul of it is extracted by meta- 
bolism, then the cell-bodies are manufactured 
out of this first dimensional stuff whence they 
came. It is only through the agency of Prin- 
ciple and the mind that 'these soul-births into 
visible form take place. The soul is inter- 
mediate, — the mind and the Life use it. What- 
soever the product is to be of this Life and 
mind action, is solely determined by the mind 
in the sympathetic activities between the con- 
scious and subconscious provinces. Cohesion, 
attraction, repulsion and so forth, are simply 
terms representing force, and when this 
is liberated, that force which was hidden in 
the visibility of the further dimensions is set 
free for another order of use, and unexpected 



OVER-SOUL, FIRST-DIMENSION 247 

powers of tremendous energy are disclosed. 
These first dimensional qualities are very 
varied, as for instance, in the different foods, 
in the organs of the body, and in the atmos- 
phere. The first dimension of the latter has 
already yielded many long hidden potentiali- 
ties. Who shall say we may not yet be in- 
debted to this source for achievements on an 
unprecedented scale in the development of 
electrical science? 

The first dimension of matter constitutes its 
spirit and intent, used and evidenced in its 
functioning. 

Mathematicians naturally approach this 
subject inductively, while we approach it 
deductively in the order of its formation, of 
physical cell-life. The cell is an embodiment 
of its spirit, or intent, and this gives grounds 
for the existence of the cell-formation whether 
it be volatile, well-nigh immeasurable, or con- 
stitute a mass; in other words, Instinctive 
Intelligence forms a cell-body to answer in 
objective terms the psychical or soul intent 
which continues to inhere in the cell-body as 
its creative energy and intelligence. This 
quality expressed in the first cell multiplies 



248 mind's silent partner 

itself into others of like destiny; these club 
together as a family of the same intent and 
thus a mass is formed, concreted with fixed 
characters. We call this mass iron, tree, 
flower, brain-matter, etc., each substance hav- 
ing its family intent, — a soul destined to serve 
the dominant soul, man, during the period 
wherein his mind has only a psychical outlook, 
through that stage of his mental awakening 
until he is delivered therefrom through a 
spiritual awakening. 

The chemical elements are Real; they be- 
long to Principle. They are translated to the 
plane of sense and are necessary to the mind 
for the manifestation of its works. The 
chemical elements in themselves are spiritual ; 
being an expression of Principle, they are 
Eeal. What then is unreal? 

Everything the mind has done while in a 
state of ignorance of its own Principle, — every 
emotion caused and stimulated by environ- 
ment is unreal, but useful and necessary. 

All self-consciousness formed through the 
mind's reactions to its environment according 
to sense is soul emotion and is created by the 
judgment of the mind according to sense- 



OVER-SOUL, FIRST-DIMENSION 249 

Such emotion has been re-enacted day by day 
whilst the mind has continued to work from 
standards of its sense conviction, not taking 
into account the Omniscience by which it was 
founded, as if it were impossible to know any- 
thing not conveyed to it through the avenues 
of sense. All this gives an unreal result be- 
cause the mind is working from false premises. 

Let us apply this idea to our daily living. 
There are many kinds of material substance 
that belong to the over-soul of man. By over- 
soul I mean the universe as we perceive it 
through the senses. Now we are referring to 
that which is relative. Every cell, each his- 
tological unit of the universe, is said by scien- 
tists to have a feeble degree of intelligence. 
Viewed in all its different shadings, that feeble 
degree of intelligence is the soul of what we 
know as matter. Matter is seen through the 
medium of the senses, not by mind alone ; and 
so long as it is seen thus, matter will balk and 
block us. 

If we are in Cologne but want to be in Cal- 
cutta we are restrained by material obstruc- 
tions, and we have to go a long journey to get 
there. But when the mind is able to place 



250 mind's silent partner 

itself in its primary relation to Omniscience 
it is able to be where it desires to be in an 
instant. For a time it rises above the soul- 
realm, and gets into that realm of mentality 
where there is no space and no time. It gets 
there before information could come by any 
instrument that is made, and gives the equiva- 
lent of that which is purely mental in terms of 
sense also ; when lo, the mind is in Calcutta. 

In the purely mental state in which the 
mind places itself in relation to the Principle 
of all mental action, there is no matter. The 
only unreal, finite or temporary thing in mat- 
ter is the soul of it which gives birth to the cell- 
mass according to sense. All else is Real, 
namely Principle and mind. 

Matter we know can be changed by man 
from one state to another, from visible to in- 
visible, from inert to forceful, to serve the 
purpose of man while he is still in an ignorant 
state in his workshop, the universe. But the 
reality of the elements remains unchanged. 
In a mass of iron, the cells are held together 
by what is known as cohesion. Cohesion, like 
other forms of force, is a property of each cell, 
which has also an affinity for similar cells 



OVER-SOUL, FIRST-DIMENSION 251 

enabling them to join together. That con- 
stitutes the mentality, as it were, of the 
physical cell-body. Various kinds of cells 
carry in them a different feeling ; they are held 
in association together according to the nature 
of their mission to mankind — of the over-soul 
to the personal soul. Similar cells unite with 
their own kind. 

As we said before, the only unreal or tem- 
porary element in matter is the psyche, the 
soul of it, a consciousness in the over-soul that 
gave birth to the cell-mass, or body. All the 
different forms of so-called matter are but a 
correspondence automatically created as over- 
soul to meet the necessities and amenities of 
the organised human race. 

That which the mind feeds upon while func- 
tioning in .terms of sense, and that which 
supplies the body, is the over-soul. It is not 
however visible things that we feed upon 
really; it is the intent, the soul of the things, 
the latent emotion, the correspondence to our 
own feeling, emotion, desire, the inspiration 
of their presence in the universe of sense, the 
order of mentality represented in the first 
dimension of the visible substance, that an- 



252 mind's silent partner 

swers to our feeling of desire for them, — soul 
feeling feeding on over-soul feeling. If it 
were the mere visible thing that we feed upon, 
why should there be any waste? 

It is the cohesion and other types of feeling 
that the cell-mass bears within its dimensional 
realm, that constitutes what corresponds on 
the sense side to Knowledge on the mental 
side. It is that which science has character- 
ized as the " feeble degree of intelligence' ' 
possessed by each cell in the universe. It is 
this that feeds the soul of the man, his soul in 
turn giving birth to cell bodies representing 
it. 

At times the mind ruminates upon its own 
happy or unhappy possessions of vivid emo- 
tional experience. Again it is stimulated to 
emotion-making in the highest degree by its 
interpretation of that which is taking place in 
the intimate relations of consanguinity and 
affinity. The emotions of each moment con- 
stitute an emotional store, the equivalent of 
which appears in terms of blood first, and 
finally in personal presentment. 

It is this process of emotion-making and 



OVER-SOUL, FIRST-DIMENSION 253 

cell-birth which constitutes the food of the 
mind. Mind feeds upon and concerns itself 
with the emotions that it has brought into 
being by its self-conscious functionings. 
These emotions are all psychical, since they 
are the result of the mind's observation 
through the avenues of sense. These psychi- 
cal emotions constitute the conscious posses- 
sions of the mind. It is the soul of the uni- 
verse, the body of which is the expression, — 
which constitutes the fourth dimension of 
matter about which mathematicians have 
speculated upon with such interest. In real- 
ity it is the first dimension in the order of its 
formation. 

The mind immersed in psyche feeds upon 
and functions in psychical stuff of the over- 
soul, thereby inducing psychical and physical 
changes in its own possessions. It is the soul 
of things, their meaning, their feeling, to meet 
our sense desire, that constitutes our second- 
ary and transitory sustenance. 

You will remember that I use the word 
over-soul as signifying the entire universe in 
its secondary sense-dress. From this, man 
while in a human state, draws supplies with 
which to meet his bodily requirements, and 



254 mind's silent partner 

by it, his mind is stimulated or induced to 
evolve a relative order of emotion or life, 
while separated from his Source by ignorance, 
yet making towards the ultimate of divine 
self-conscious Manhood. The over-soul bears 
somewhat the same relation to the race as the 
commissariat of the caravan bears to those to 
whom it ministers in the desert waste, 

Let us imagine the personal human being 
lying in generic humanity undifferentiated, 
instinctively preparing for individual expres- 
sion. Let us imagine further that coming 
forth into such expression, the generic or over- 
soul out of which man came still remains to 
minister to his necessities on his way out of 
the chrysalis state into divine individual ex- 
pression. The over-soul will constitutes his 
supply, his store for bodily necessities, and 
also the required inducing element to ener- 
gise his mental activities. All that he has 
left in clothing himself with the elements as 
he came up out of them would be his over- 
soul. All personality as well as all other order 
of creation to be expressed, whether in the 
generic or the individualised state, would con- 



OVER-SOUL, FIRST-DIMENSION 255 

stitute the over-soul of each member of the 
race. 

The body of the universe as discerned 
through the senses is but the expression of 
the soul of the universe; just as the human 
body is the expression of the soul-feeling of 
the race and of the individual. 

Let us remember that this is but inductive 
reasoning, based upon the hypothesis of crea- 
tion according to sense, or of the mind's con- 
sciousness that has been acquired by its func- 
tioning through the avenues of sense. 

This fabric is all to come down, item by 
item, in the regeneration. In proportion as 
the mind clothes itself with the Spirit of 
Knowledge-consciousness first will the Spirit 
of Man come to birth and be expressed. 

We cannot, in the ordinary state of a con- 
crete mass, take account in measurement of 
the force binding the cells together, but if 
iron, for example, be submitted to the action 
of heat, the force of cohesion lessens until, in 
the molten state, a certain order of cohesion is 
converted into another order of force. 

The power of what is seen as matter is not 



256 mind's silent partner 

in its visible, but in its invisible properties. 
The invisible ante-dates the visible. But the 
invisible has a direct character and draws its 
own kind to itself. When seen in a mass, we 
call it, for instance, iron. 

In examining a dimensional mass by meth- 
ods of sense, we do not realise this first or 
causal dimension. Working by mental meth- 
ods, one finds that the fourth dimension, as 
now known, is really the first. 

All the invisible properties concealed in 
length, breadth and thickness, are stored up 
and not taken account of in gross measure- 
ment. 

That aggregate soul within constitutes the 
life of the mass. Concealed within the first 
dimension lies the potentiality of the three 
further dimensions. 

Coal can be measured in gross according to 
three dimensions. Then, when it turns into 
gas a measurable force is developed that has 
to be restrained : the grosser body is vanished, 
the coal soul has taken measurable form. 

I want to bring before you a more definite 
idea of the first dimension. 

For purposes of spiritual development we 



OVER-SOUL, FIRST-DIMENSION 257 

have been endeavouring to see a little of what 
has been behind the veil to scientists concern- 
ing matter. 

We have all the resources of mind to deal 
with the realm to which we are accustomed 
to refer as matter. Mind cannot exist with- 
out Principle. Soul cannot exist without 
mind. Body cannot exist without soul. All 
are inter-related. There are two fundamental 
necessities of our existence, — Principle and 
mind ; and two that are dependencies of them, 
soul and body. A further outcome of these 
is to be Eeal Self -consciousness, which is the 
equivalent emotion of Principle in conscious- 
ness of the mind. 

What the human being has hitherto recog- 
nised as himself is vested in the first dimen- 
sional realm of his existence, but it must be 
kept alive by the Initial Power — Life Itself. 
The first negative and positive cell of the 
child that is to be were formed through the 
coming together of the father and mother, 
which is fraught with the intensest feeling on 
the subjective and creative side as well as on 
the self-conscious and objective side of exist- 
ence. It is this feeling that possesses these 



258 mind's silent partner 

first cells, that constitutes the initial founding 
of the first dimension of "the living soul to 
come." 

The first dimension is now being elaborated 
in terms of brain cells which, when this record 
is completed before birth, will constitute the 
race contribution to the psychical assets of 
the new individual. It is the feeling em- 
bodied in the cells, with Life at the back of 
them, unknown to the self-consciousness of 
the mind, that evolves the embodiment; that 
so acts upon its unknown power within that it 
produces out of the unseen dimensional ele- 
ments the visible organisation. 

All cells, organic or inorganic, have individ- 
ual souls or psyches, an order of instinctive 
intelligence in each. The different forms of 
matter are different aggregations of cells, 
each aggregation having its own character- 
istics. These different orders of cells multi- 
ply, are drawn together in families, to the end 
of carrying on the different functions of the 
body; it is an innate necessity that they 
should draw together and unite as one power 
to establish a composite soul. 

The particular quality of any mass of mat- 



OVER-SOUL, FIRST-DIMENSION 259 

ter depends, not only upon a certain degree 
of cohesion, but upon innumerable other 
qualities that may lie in that particular di- 
mensional body. 

There must, however, be enough cohesion 
to hold together the concrete mass to fulfil the 
intent of its destiny. 

In the realm of visions there appears to be 
nothing behind the cell, yet behind it is its 
very essence and its secondary cause, also 
Life Itself. Before the form of matter can be 
changed, its first dimension must yield itself 
up, or give its consent, though perhaps unwill- 
ingly. When it is desired to develop the 
force locked up in the mass-cells of any sub- 
stance, it is subjected to some active force 
that is the natural master of it, then, it not 
only yields up its abode in that form but the 
latent qualities concealed in the mass are 
liberated into measurable terms. For ex- 
ample, the body of coal is the last of it to be 
given up; the soul of it surrenders itself to 
the change first, and a new order of force, 
heat, is produced. The first dimension, the 
mother of the other three, must yield before 
any change can take place in her children. 



260 mind's silent partner 

Substances part with their first dimension 
rapidly or slowly according to their dimen- 
sional character and differences. 

It is the peculiar qualities of the soul of 
things, exampled by cohesion, that call out the 
energies of man, through the science of chem- 
istry, to make such changes as are desirable to 
him in using the matter. 

Man's soul Substance, or that which stands 
under its existence, is not destructible, since, 
in process of regeneration, it becomes the 
Spirit of man or the equivalent in self -con- 
sciousness of what Principle is in Its Sub- 
stance. That realm of man which belongs to 
the over-soul, could it but be changed by some 
form of alchemy and resolved to its pre-exist- 
ent state in Principle, would be the inherency 
of Principle for expression. 

Now let us apply the foregoing to our med- 
itative science. 

When the mind is concerned with the meas- 
urable form of matter of which our bodies 
consist, as shown by physiologists and anato- 
mists, it is difficult to realise how the mind can 
change what is going on within. 

The initial movement towards creation in 



OVER-SOUL, FIRST-DIMENSION 261 

the elements is in the first dimension. It is 
easy to recognise how the whole trend of the 
feeling-nature may be changed and how the 
soul will take fire with the change; how the 
Spirit of Righteousness in the mind in dealing 
with the first dimension, the soul, will reform 
it, in so far as its activities are wrong. Let 
the first dimension be kept active by the 
Spirit of Knowledge within, and one need 
concern one's self no further regarding the 
bodily expression. It is the mind's contri- 
bution from the Subjectivity of Knowledge 
within, that redeems this first dimension as a 
whole, making it a likeness of Itself. 

It is a province of the first dimension that 
falls ill before any cell of the body can be dis- 
turbed. No power can destroy or separate an 
atom of the body before the consent of its first 
dimension is obtained or its conquest effected. 
The first dimension of man's bodily substance 
represents his status up to the moment, how 
much race superstition remains, his order of 
feeling towards his environment, his family 
relationships and so forth, his state of health, 
his attitude towards God and his neighbour. 

When the mind is given a true creative idea 



262 mind's silent partner 

by means of one word of Spirit, of Creative 
Life, it may effect a change in the trend of the 
mind's activities from an ignorant direction 
to a wise direction. It is helpful to think, as 
this word is held, that the mind is rising out 
of its psychical holding of soul ; that it is con- 
necting itself with the Great Subjectivity, 
leaving its race-dimensional realm and call- 
ing from the Manhood Principle within a new 
order of Spirit or emotion, to work its reform- 
ing (Righteousness in the mind's perverted 
consciousness, and to establish Righteousness 
in the offices of incarnation. 

It is also useful to recognise that there is 
that in the latency of the emotional realm that 
might be called in material terms fluidic, that, 
during the process of meditation, becomes 
rarer and rarer, less and less opaque, indicat- 
ing the regenerating activities called out from 
the Spirit within by the functioning of the 
desire embraced in the meditation. Ulti- 
mately in the way of regeneration the equiv- 
alent of the Spirit of Subjectivity of Manhood 
will be expressed in terms of brain record as 
its first dimensional equipment, superseding 
the lower record, still intact, in all activities, 



OVER-SOUL, FIRST-DIMENSION 263 

to answer for the mind's purposes on the 
higher level of Knowledge in distinction from 
the lower level of sense. 

So long as the imagination is entangled in 
the lower level of material existence, it is diffi- 
cult to realise any permanent healing. Thus 
one often experiences but a reprieve from the 
suffering of the moment, till that or some 
other disturbance arises, either of an acute 
emotional nature or an unexpected physical 
disaster having no immediate origin in the 
conscious emotional life. 

When the mind, in its conscious and invol- 
untary capacities, is co-operating in calling 
into activity the resources of the Creative 
Spirit within, it is assuring the stability of 
Health and Illumination, in the governing 
store of the controlling dimensional realm of 
the mind. All power is given unto the mind 
from within. The mind is master through its 
birthright. As it acquires knowledge of its 
birthright, that which was only potential be- 
comes actual. Its masterhood lies in abiding 
in Trust in this Divine Inheritance while it is 
coming into Knowledge of It. 

Ths first dimensional realm is of the mind's 



264 mind's silent partner 

own making. In this it plies its own activ- 
ities, and through it one may see how, abiding 
in the Spirit of Knowledge under all circum- 
stances, it will dominate without force the 
spirit of sense of the lower level. 

Had the activities induced by meditation to 
go by the route of the blood, a circuit of the 
body would be accomplished in two minutes; 
through the nervous cables, however, they are 
telegraphed in a moment's flash. This is how 
the lame man at the Gate of the Temple rose 
up and walked, because the Master Spirit had 
moved upon the first dimensional realm, the 
general office of control, from abstract to con- 
crete of the organism. 

It surely is now clear that in the realm of 
sense there is that which is invisible, and, in 
its undisturbed state, stable. But disturb the 
state of cohesion in some innocent appearing 
substances and tremendous forces are un- 
locked, a fact of which we had abundant evi- 
dence in the late war. The force that deter- 
mines the velocity of a projectile does not lie 
in the realm of visibility but is contained 
within it. When this is let loose tremendous 
activities occur in space. 



OVER-SOTJL, FIRST-DIMENSION 265 

It is evident that if there are four dimen- 
sions belonging to the same substance, they 
must all be measurable mathematically. 
That which is made bespeaks a cause. The 
predisposing Cause would be Principle, the 
exciting cause desire, spirit, intent, and this 
must inhere somewhere within the confines of 
the mass. We have endeavoured to localise it 
and to reveal its hitherto hidden residence. 

We have at least found a practical appli- 
cation of it in our meditative science, most in- 
spiring and effective both in spiritual develop- 
ment and in healing. 

"That which is born of flesh is flesh, that 
which is born of Spirit is Spirit," said the 
Master. It is not possible that that which is 
born of the Spirit should ever fail us. 

So as the mind comes to make connection 
with the Creative Spirit it becomes master of 
the first dimension through Knowledge, in dis- 
tinction from the mind's mastering or being 
mastered by its own emotions through force. 
As the Spirit of Knowledge becomes resident 
in the mind's offices the soul-entity will be re- 
deemed from the fictions that were necessary 



266 



mind's silent partner 



in man's chromatic transition from the soul- 
state to spiritual consciousness. 

The spiritual superseding of the psychical 
does not imply in any sense the destruction of 
the dimensional existence, but leaves that 
realm intact to answer as the connecting link 
with human personality. 

Ignorance concerning the pictures of hu- 
man existence is eliminated. The regenerated 
pictures abide. 



a 



THAT I MAY KNOW THE INFINITE SPIRIT 



WITHIN ME 



91 



We all want and expect the mind to function 
from the Infinite Spirit as It is related to 
our own living day by day, just as freely as it 
does in carrying out our desires in the world 
of mechanics or architecture or any other 
department of our outward activities. We 
are particularly desirous that this same 
Principle, which works so wonderfully for us 
in the world of objects, should work as won- 
derfully in our own bodies and whatever con- 
stitutes our personal life ; that we may use It 



THAT I MAT KNOW 267 

in all that concerns ourselves and others, and 
in the body of the universe. 

The Infinite Spirit is working through it 
all, but we need that It should come into the 
mind, which, co-operating with the Funda- 
mental Spirit whence it originated and came 
into Consciousness, may unite with It, thus 
completing the round between Subjectivity 
and self -consciousness. 

In my use of the word Subjectivity, I mean, 
in religious terms, God, the Ineffable, Immu- 
table, the Omniscient Substance. This is pure 
Subjectivity; It is the Subject of which the 
mind is the object. Mind the object has pro- 
ceeded from the Subject. It inhered in the 
Subject, through the agency of Instinctive 
Man within It, to bring forth mind, an object 
in the mental sense, for the purpose of self- 
eonsciousness, The word "object" here does 
not mean a literal and material bodily object, 
but a mental object, what we know as mind. 
It was the intent of the functioning of Instinc- 
tive Man, the Manhood within Principle, to 
create mind that should answer the pur- 
pose of self-conscious life, with which motive 
It was inspired from the great Subject, the 



268 mind's silent partner 

Principle of Manhood. Man was inherent in 
the great Spirit and in Man was inherent the 
predestiny of self-consciousness. Instinctive 
Man moving to that end created mind with its 
adjuncts of sense. Predestiny was the urge, 
the spirit and intent of the move. Thus the 
subject is to the object as cause to effect. This 
may go only as far as the mental image, or it 
may go right on into the movement of the ele- 
ments, and create a material object. The ob- 
ject is always dependent on the subject; with- 
out the subject it could not be. Pure Sub- 
jectivity is God. The* Subjectivity of Man- 
hood is the Manhood which has its home in 
God or Principle, the Eternal Spirit, which 
has been invoked by Subjective Man to bring 
forth its objective correspondence or counter- 
part. In this bringing forth Subjective Man 
proceeded pari passu with the development of 
mind right on into the manifesting elements 
of Principle and created also a habitation 
and office for the mind, a body. Each in- 
dividual spirit here accordingly, has his ob- 
ject, the body. The object is instinctively 
created from within outwards. 
It might be as well to say here that there is 



PURE SUBJECTIVITY 269 

a common use of the word mind, which I 
would like to criticise constructively. It is 
said by some that God is mind. In a certain 
sense God is mind, in the sense that mind 
could not be without God. " Without Me, ye 
can do nothing/ ' But God is that which 
makes mind possible ; the mind is a secondary 
instrument, created and officed by Divine Man- 
hood through His Inheritance of Principle. 
When the word mind is used, the idea con- 
sists of a kingdom of faculties working har- 
moniously to bring forth feeling, and not only 
feeling, but self-conscious feeling. Further 
the mind deals with feeling day by day, 
whether it be called forth from the pure Sub- 
jectivity Itself, or whether it be stimulated 
from the mind's contact, through the senses, 
with environment. It is the office of the mind 
to deal with both orders of feeling, that above 
and that below the threshold of recognition. 
The mind belongs to Man; self-consciousness 
does not own it. The whole organism from 
the abstract to the concrete belongs to Christ, 
its creator. It belpngs to Life ; it belongs, so 
far as individuals are concerned, to Man-Life. 
Self-consciousness has the use of mind. The 



270 mind's silent partner 

mind on the self-conscious side of existence in- 
herits for its use Manhood Principle in which 
Manhood ever lives as a member. But con- 
nection must be consciously made between the 
mind in its self-conscious citadel, planted in 
the brain, and the Divine Manhood within, 
and, through Divine Manhood, with the Great 
Spirit of Omniscience. 

Now the actual connection with the Omnis- 
cience exists all the time, but it is just as when 
you go to sleep. When asleep you do not 
know that you are ; but you are, just the same. 
We are always asleep to this connection with 
the Omniscience, and that is what we should 
be most awake to. There is a connection ; it is 
for the mind to realise this connection, that it 
may feel the Principle of Omniscience operant 
not only in its outward affairs, but in con- 
stant use on this side of existence throughout 
the bodily vitality. Thus Principle, man, 
mind, soul, body, All may be at one, being all 
operated, both in the Subjectivity and in the 
self-conscious realm, by the Spirit of Omnis- 
cience translated into terms of self -conscious- 
ness. "When the Ultimate comes to the race, 
disease, accident, sorrow and death will dis- 



PURE SUBJECTIVITY 271 

appear. Is this visionary ? It is logical, Je- 
sus taught it! Meanwhile individuals are 
growing more normal. 

"That I may know the Infinite Spirit 
within me." Now, whether we will or not, 
whether we know the Truth or not, if we are 
going to ask anything of God, we can only ask 
it through Christ, because Christ means 
Divine Manhood or Knowledge-Manhood. 
The Manhood that is vested in God or Prin- 
ciple. 

Our one Way of gaining Knowledge of the 
All-Father is through the divine indwelling 
Christ, — Mediator between the mind and its 
Principle; whence Jesus obtained His Teach- 
ing. It came to Him intuitively; Jesus 
was the psychic influence, through which the 
Manhood thus spoke, and the psychic Jesus 
was the instrument wherewith to state this 
message, the mechanical instrument driven by 
soul-power. The mind has for its power 
Principle Itself. Soul-power is force. It is 
only through the mind that you get anything 
beyond force. Now please understand that 
when I speak of Jesus as the One who voiced 
the Great Teaching from Christ within, 



272 mind's silent partner 

though I may appear to speak irreverently of 
the vehicle of utterance, it is because I would 
like you clearly to see that Jesus was exoteric, 
depending entirely upon the Subject, the great 
Principle, as we should. But Jesus had a 
Manhood within — the Christ. So long as 
Christ is functioning through the Jesus con- 
sciousness, it is pointing out in word-forms, the 
way to enter into the Divine Manhood, which 
we have inherited. If you really want to get 
into connection directly with Principle, 
(Cause), you must develop the psychical per- 
sonality through your Christ. If you desire 
to develop a spiritual consciousness, you must 
develop it in the only way revealed, that which 
Jesus practiced and taught. You must abide 
in the words. Of His human personality He 
said, "I of myself can do nothing.' ' He also 
said, u Iam the Way, the Truth and the Life." 
By the latter He evidently meant, " Without 
Me, ye can do nothing." That is the "I", the 
mind, the Manhood, the Principle, — without 
these you can do nothing. These three are one, 
a trinity of Spirit. But because there was a 
tendency to lean upon the personality of Jesus, 



PURE SUBJECTIVITY 273 

He said, "It is expedient for you that I go 
away, for if I go not away the Comforter will 
not come." In other words, "Here have I 
been for three years, and you are still depend- 
ing on My personality/ ' You remember how 
He said: "Have I been so long with you, and 
yet hast thou not known Me, 'Philip V Then 
He broke forth into these words, "I can of 
Myself do nothing : the Father dwelling with- 
in, He doeth the works, everything for Me at 
My desire. ' ' Now any one who wants to bring 
in the personal aspect of the case, makes a 
mistake. While we honour the message-bearer 
it is the Christ we want and that Jesus wanted 
us to have. Man's own body is his Jesus, to 
stand forth as did He who stood forth as the 
Christ ; 

Many years ago in the earlier teaching, a 
good many of us had the idea that speaking 
the words "Jesus Christ " would bring illu- 
mination quickly. I knew a very sensitive and 
earnest man who determined to carry out that 
idea in his own practice. For months he did 
nothing to further his development, but speak 
the words, "Jesus Christ," yet nothing appar- 



274 MIND'S SILENT PARTNER 

ently came of it. Jesus himself warned us 
against deifying or making anything at all of 
the personality. "Why call ye Me Lord, Lord, 
and do not the things that I say?" He said 
these words, indicating the way to practise the 
bringing forth of spiritual consciousness. I 
am speaking of this because of the desire that 
we should all accomplish what we greatly need 
to accomplish, the attaining of a good common 
sense spiritual consciousness that attends the 
daily life. Let us take heed that we do not get 
the teaching confused with the teacher. If 
you chance to understand one teacher of math- 
ematics better than another, very well; it is 
mathematics you want to learn. So it is with 
meditative science, it is the teaching you want. 
Continue and abide in the living words that 
give life to the mind and health to the body. 
Keep right on the line of the mind's birth into 
the Spirit, in the way that Jesus taught. 

"Thou, O my indwelling Christ, my Heav- 
enly Father, art Life Supreme within me. 
Feed my mind with living Knowledge, feed 
my heart with living Love from thine own 
Omniscient Life-Substance within." 



OMNISCIENT SOURCE 275 

There is a point where the mind in associa- 
tion with its Source, induces action that not 
only brings forth new brain cells, but also 
liberates in the brain a rare sensitising sub- 
stance. This sensitises the cells which receive, 
like the photographer's plate, the nascent 
Knowledge born of the mind's association, 
through the words of meditation, with its 
Knowledge-Principle. This constitutes an 
item of the pneumatological record as distin- 
guished from the psychological record. Both 
are formed by the same process, the one, how- 
ever, being constituted by the mind's associa- 
tion with the objective side of existence, 
through the medium of the senses, the other 
by its association with its own Source or Prin- 
ciple, which made the objective state possible. 
This process takes place during every act of 
the mind. 

The race has its soul-record formed up to 
date. Those who are practising this aspect 
of the Christ-teaching are bringing a spirit- 
ual record into existence, item by item, exactly 
as the soul record was formed. While the 
spiritual record is being grown, the soul record 



276 mind's silent partner 

is left intact, so that the mind may function 
from either source, human or divine, soul or 
spirit. 

We come now to the application of the first 
dimensional teaching to the psychical and 
spiritual ends of our development, to healing 
and to illumination. 

Each individual of the race has a soul, a 
dimensional realm, in which the mind has its 
offices and through which it functions. 

Just as the quality of consciousness em- 
bodied in matter of the objective world is the 
first dimension of it, so also is the quality of 
soul embodied in each individual brain the 
first dimension of the mass of brain-substance. 
We have then, soul, a germinating substance, 
as a first dimension. Every act of the mind 
induces mental conception from the realm of 
emotion that is engaging the mind's attention. 
The feeling thus born is the first dimension 
from which the three further dimensions, 
length, breadth and thickness, are evolved. In 
these three evolved dimensions the soul or idea 
that is expressed in the visible dimensions 
hides itself as force or beneficent feeling, 
according to the nature of each item of con- 



OMNISCIENT SOURCE 277 

ception, to be liberated either at the mind's 
desire, or automatically, in the mind's emer- 
gencies- 

When the mind is in meditative association 
with its Source, it is bringing to birth items 
of feeling or emotion, which are an equivalent 
or likeness, on the self-conscious side of exist- 
ence, of its Omniscient Source. And their 
pneumatological record is being created; 
while at the same time the psychological record 
is at rest. 

As this spiritual process advances, the first 
dimension of matter, or the soul-feeling, with 
its entire dimensional realm, is held in abey- 
ance, its offices being made use of for the func- 
tioning of the higher consciousness, while 
leaving the offices of the lower or sense- 
consciousness intact. The mind is able to 
call these into activity at any moment it de- 
sires. 

The first dimension or, man's soul-self -con- 
sciousness is a realm of force in store, and has 
its correspondence in the oversoul, or in ex- 
ternal nature. Its different qualities may be 
described in such terms, as attraction, re- 
pulsion, violence, allurement, etc., whereas 



278 mind's silent partner 

that which corresponds to the first dimension 
of matter on the spiritual side of the record, 
is a realm of Knowledge; a store that is the 
equivalent of Principle, the spirit of which 
occupies and controls the dimensional realm. 

The mind, in making use of the soul-record, 
dominates by force through material vibra- 
tion, whereas the mind, functioning from the 
pneumatological realm, dominates not by 
power, not by might but by the Spirit of Om- 
niscient Principle, — the primary Creative 
realm, wherein force is unknown and unnec- 
essary. 

The minute a meditation begins to be func- 
tioned the mind is angling in its pure Subjec- 
tivity for the feeling answering to its expect- 
ancy for record in the spiritual library of the 
brain, just as in intellectual meditation to ob- 
jective ends, as, for instance, in the design- 
ing of a house, the straightening of a business 
tangle, or preparing to write an essay on an 
abstruse subject. The spiritual meditation is 
for the purpose of founding a new order of 
consciousness within, whereas the intellectual 
meditation relates to self-conscious desires 
connected with one's environment. 



SPIRIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS 279 

During spiritual meditation the mind is ges- 
tating directly from its Source. This emo- 
tion becomes an item in the mind's book of 
life. It lies written in the first dimensional 
realm, a Christ-element, in distinction from 
other orders of emotion. It gives its char- 
acter and quality to that realm. 

While the meditation is proceeding, the 
offices of the mind are possessed of the spirit 
of the meditation, the Spirit of Righteous- 
ness, and under the law of incarnation this 
spirit is translated into terms suited to each 
vital office and functioned throughout the 
system by organisations that exist to that end. 

"That I may know the Spirit of Righteous- 
ness within me." Just imagine all that the 
word Righteousness stands for as a vicegerent 
of Principle, its natal Source. Imagine what 
lies in the Source to be disclosed through the 
conceiving office of the mind, as this Sub- 
stance-Word-Seed is expectantly brooded over 
to that purpose. Imagine, if you can, a state 
of illness in full apparent possession of the 
human consciousness continuing when the 
Spirit of the Righteousness-Principle is called 
into the offices of emotion and incarnation 



280 mind's silent partner 

through silent meditation. Imagine the Spirit 
of Righteousness taking possession of the first 
dimensional realm as over against its mate- 
rial qualities of emotion. Can the objective 
office of reason have any doubt as to which 
would win, — the soul emotion of disease, death 
bound, or the Spirit-emotion of Health, Life- 
bound? 

There is the imagination on the objective 
side of the mind which you deliberately use; 
and there is also the imagination in the Sub- 
jective office which involuntarily carries out 
its behests also on the objective side. For 
example, if, from a slight symptom, you imag- 
ine a dread disease is working in you, the in- 
stant you accept this suggestion of the imag- 
ination, you have the response from the sub- 
jective side outpicturing the dread disease in 
feeling and phenomena. Again, when a great 
fear comes catapulting into your mind, the 
subjective response is such that you well nigh 
faint. 

Likewise, if you have a clear and vivid con- 
viction that there is a power within that will 
answer to the call of your meditation and heal 
you, the imagination on the subjective side 



THE KNOWLEDGE-PRINCIPLE 281 

calls this power into action, answering the be- 
hests of the objective or self-conscious side, 
and thus the healing is accomplished. 



"THAT I MAY KNOW THE OMNISCIENT 
GOODNESS WITHIN ME" 



He who feels fitted for it may become an 
architect. He knows there is a principle of 
architecture, yet he has to prepare himself to 
be able to use it. By various means he learns 
to tease out of his mentality the necessary 
knowledge of proportion and aesthetics 
belonging to the science of architecture. He 
can get his power to become an architect from 
nowhere excepting from his within. He can- 
not commit any teaching he has to memory 
and be a successful architect, but one skilled 
in that science can help him to induce the 
knowledge from out of his own Subjectivity 
and apply it. 

There are those who have intuitional knowl- 
edge of architecture, who are able, without 
training, to deal with the proportion and 
aesthetics of a building, although, of course, 



282 mind's silent partner 

they become more technically efficient and cul- 
tured through practice. If one is faced with 
the necessity of solving a problem for which 
he doubts his capability and has no one to help 
him, he knows he must rely on his own capac- 
ity, and involuntarily invokes his resources 
within to meet the emergency. One educated 
in the old teaching might pray to an an- 
thropomorphic God, yet in the end help must 
come through the channels of his own organi- 
sation. When, however, he perceives that 
there is that Within, even 'Principle Itself, 
which contains the answer to his call, he nat- 
urally turns from the anthropomorphic idea 
of God to the Creative Omniscient Spirit with- 
in and so accustoms himself to draw from that 
Within to meet all the exigencies of his life in 
sense. 

Our meditation expresses a definite desire 
to know the Great Within so as to realise the 
Goodness that is there for use and enjoyment. 
Most of our ideas about God have been senti- 
mental. 

If one wants a thing that another can give, 
that desire is the means of drawing it from 
the other. The one responding to the desire 



THE KNOWLEDGE-PRINCIPLE 283 

would, in the sentimental sense, be called good. 
But Infinite Goodness, responding through the 
channel of the mind, flashes the Wisdom to 
the mind to produce that which is desired out 
of one's own birthright of Omniscience with- 
in. As the Spirit of Infinite Wisdom devel- 
ops in you, your divine sympathy with the 
divine nature of another who is sick calls out 
of that one a likeness of the Spirit active at 
the time in you, and the result is a healing of 
the other, whatsoever the form of the illness. 
There is One Omniscient Goodness, It is the 
same in all. It does not relate primarily to 
conduct. It does not spring from objective 
activity, but knowledge of It is brought forth 
from the wonderful silent Spirit within you 
to eventuate in actions that properly voice the 
Spirit. Goodness is not something that comes 
and goes. It is a stable spirit always the same. 
It is always ready to respond when induced 
by the mind's desire. We are not to be for 
ever in swaddling clothes, we are to take action 
towards our own regeneration and thus par- 
take of and enjoy our divine independence, as 
when the mind recognises its oneness with its 
Most High Principle. 



284 mind's silent partner 

There is only one Good, and all else depends 
upon it. But we may not have even Goodness 
thrust upon us, we must needs desire It first, 
then induce It through meditation as a cor- 
rective, into our mental life. 

All the activities of emotional and mental 
life depend on It. It is, and for ever is, in- 
dependent of time. It is the mind's natal 
home, with which it has direct communica- 
tion on its hither side. Out of, and by means 
of, the Omniscient Goodness, the mind is to 
build a new world of consciousness in which a 
knowledge of the Spirit of Wisdom will ante- 
date all man's activities in objective life. 

We never really live except in proportion 
as we are born into the living consciousness 
of our Source. It was intended that we should 
know the Principle of our existence just as 
we know the principle of things. The Knowl- 
edge Spirit does not thrust itself upon us, 
though we are equipped for the obtaining of 
It. If we do not prepare for its coming and 
use our equipment to that end, the usual must 
ever follow, disease, disaster, death, according 
to the treadmill experience of the human race. 
This state of ignorance is to be corrected, first 



THE KNOWLEDGE-PRINCIPLE 285 

by going to school to the " Master Within/ ' 
To acquire Knowledge of the Entity that 
brought us into existence requires practice, in 
the same way as it requires practice to acquire 
knowledge of facts of sense. 

The desire voiced in this our meditation 
connects the mind with its Original Life-Sub- 
stance. We have but to abide in these words, 
these seeds of Life, while the subjective office 
of the mind conceives and brings forth their 
equivalent into the mind's library of spirit- 
ual self -consciousness. The old order of race 
self-consciousness founded alone on sense-per- 
ception has proved itself to be death-bound. 
We have now come to the idea of founding a 
New Order upon the perception of Knowl- 
edge Principle, — of Divine Manhood: our 
meditations gestate, through the mind's sub- 
jective office, experiences to us from our Om- 
niscient Source. 

In Principle dwells generic Manhood- 
Christhood. Individual Christs are to be born 
by regeneration out of generic Manhood Prin- 
ciple. This Christ-Principle is instinct with 
transcendental Knowledge to be translated 
through the mind's subjective office into its 



286 mind's silent partner 

intuitional equivalent on the self-conscious 
side of existence. 

Man's personal consciousness to-day is as 
nothing to what it may become, as is the cater- 
pillar to what is expressed when it becomes a 
butterfly. As a new birth is latent in the cater- 
pillar, so a new birth is latent in the human 
chrysalis. 

Each individual mind must enter into the 
conceiving process which shall ultimately 
bring this latent potentiality into the full birth 
of Divine Manhood, a likeness to its Source. 

Hitherto self-conscious man has lived as if, 
below the waking state of objective life, there 
were naught but chemical action for bodily 
maintenance and the functioning of race-ex- 
perience; as if the mind had no resources 
underlying it save the chemical elements in 
which it is enthroned, and through which it 
was brought into existence; as if the mind 
were a development of bodily metabolism. 

Now we have come to know that man on 
his subjective side has by pure Instinct of his 
Manhood-Principle harnessed these forces to 
fulfill his destiny; that he inherits all the re- 
sources of Omniscient Principle, which he may 



THE KNOWLEDGE-PRINCIPLE 287 

ultimately develop and enjoy as the son of 
God. 

"Be still and know that I within thee am 
Christ, the Manhood-Spirit of Omniscient 
Principle. I am thy Life, I am thy Health, 
I am thy Healing Power, I am thy Creative 
Spirit of Knowledge within thee: and I will 
never leave thee nor forsake thee." 

It is often good to express the meditation in 
the responsive way of acknowledgment, for 
example, thus: — 

"I would be still and know that Thou with- 
in me art Christ, the Manhood-Spirit of Om- 
niscient Principle, that Thou art my Life, my 
Health, my Healing Power, my Creative 
Spirit of Knowledge within me, that Thou wilt 
never leave me nor forsake me. I would abide 
in Thee through the words Thou hast given 
unto me : that my mind may be satisfied with 
living Knowledge, that my heart may be satis- 
fied with living Love, from Thine own Omnis- 
cient Love-Substance within." 

It is also well to practise the long medita- 
tions in their paragraph sections while be- 
coming familiar with them. 

We can easily imagine the potentiality of 



288 mind's silent partner 

the Christ-Spirit within responding to our 
desire, thus teaching the mind of Itself, We 
can imagine the Christ Spirit saying to the 
mind: "I have created thy complex mind, 
fitted and equipped to bring forth into thy feel- 
ing, self-conscious likenesses of Me. Through 
my Instinctive touch with the Omniscient 
Spirit-Substance in which I live have I cre- 
ated thee. 

"I have not only created thy mind but also 
the adjunctive offices necessary to fulfill thy 
Divine Destiny, but thou must choose to co- 
operate with Me to that end, rather than ac- 
cept the race-fate. 

" Further, thou must look back to Me, to My 
Source and thy Source, to the Stability of 
Divine Principle. Learn of Me. I will teach 
thee of the All-Father whose works I do." 

Realisations of this character are most illu- 
minating and healing. When entering into a 
meditation we imagine the mind addressing 
its Principle, or Principle speaking through 
the Christ-Entity up into the office of self- 
consciousness in accordance with the wording 
of the meditation. 

What is nearest to the Principle of Knowl- 



THE KNOWLEDGE-PRINCIPLE 289 

edge that we use in our science and art ? What 
is nearest to this Spirit of Omniscience ? The 
mind is the one medium through which this 
conscious touch can be established. Of all 
that constitutes man's individual organisation, 
the mind alone can touch and bring response 
from the Creative Spirit of his 'Principle. 

The mind, in connection with its Instinc- 
tive Source is the man. All things else 
belonging to his self-conscious state are simply 
his possessions. For example, the mind 
possesses soul and body through which it func- 
tions in making its transition from soul-life 
to spiritual life. One can conceive that the 
mind in its most primitive form of Instinct 
could build another body suited to an advanced 
state of requirement. 

There was a time when, in order to make 
certain structures endure, we had to fashion 
them with ponderous material such as iron; 
now with more knowledge of the elements we 
are able to build them with far less cumber- 
some metals, such as aluminum. In like 
manner, the mind, associated with its chem- 
ical principle is capable of adapting the body 
to the advancing requirements of the mind 



29Q mind's silent partner 

that is taught of the Spirit, to complement 
transcendental mental states. 

In using the words Transcendental Knowl- 
edge in this connection we mean Knowledge 
that has not come through learning, but 
directly from Instinctive Life into the mind's 
offices, a saving presence there, working out 
into man's mental and environmental exist- 
ence. All transcendental Knowledge comes 
through the Christ, in other words, the Sub- 
jective Man-Entity, from the " Kingdom of 
God Within." 

"Be still and know that I within thee am 
Christ." The mind should be disabused of 
the error of interchanging such terms as Jesus 
and Christ. Those of us who were brought 
up religiously have been taught to have Jesus 
as our ideal: He "who had not where to lay 
His head," Who suffered agonies in the gar- 
den and died upon the Cross. According to 
the Master's Teachings we are not to meditate 
on His sufferings, or to imitate His personal 
or physical experiences, not to deify His per- 
sonality, calling Him, "Lord, Lord," while we 
do not what He says. Jesus was the mouth- 
piece of His indwelling Christ, the Master 



THE KNOWLEDGE-PRINCIPLE 2'91 

within. It is this Master that is to be deified 
in each personality by constant and conscious 
mental connection with this our Source of liv- 
ing Knowledge. Christ is the Man Entity, 
the likeness of God. Jesus was the bearer of 
the Christ message to the race. Having 
brought His indwelling Christ to birth in His 
own mind, He voiced the way for the race to 
do likewise through abiding in the words rep- 
resenting Original Spirit. Meditation is abid- 
ing. 

Our Christ within is capable of speaking 
through the offices It has established, but we 
have to make straight the way, so that the 
Christ may speak in His terms of Wisdom- 
Emotion. 

The words of Jesus came into the offices of 
the mind nascent from the Man within. The 
Within always ante-dates the without. The 
Within of Manhood as distinguished from 
the within of the soul of the human being is 
the same as the distinction between Spirit and 
soul. The first is the source of all Knowledge. 

Imagination is one of the wonderful facul- 
ties of the mind, and a most important one, 
when you realise that it is the one door 



292 mind's silent partner 

through which the Spirit of man is called into 
the mind's consciousness. Having had an ex- 
ample of the order of words that are capable 
of bringing forth divine feeling, the faculty 
of imagination helps us to realise it after the 
manner that the Master taught. The Old 
Testament instructs us: "Be still and know 
that I am God." The New Testament an- 
nounces "The Kingdom of God is within you." 

The Old Testament man was created per- 
fect. He was perfect in substance; after- 
wards like any other image brought forth by 
the mind from Principle, he was clothed with 
the elements, ushered into the world of sense 
and became a living soul. Before, he was 
Spirit, with God, perfect. Becoming a living 
soul was his way of winning a knowledge of 
his Inheritance. 

"Be still and know that I within thee am 
Christ." It is equally true to say "Be still 
and know that I within thee am Man." Ke- 
peating these meditations the mind is turning 
from the sense-conception, to the conceiving 
from the Manhood-Principle whence it came 
into existence. 

When the offices of the mind have been sub- 



THE KNOWLEDGE-PRINCIPLE 293 

mitted to the use of the Spirit of Man within, 
the outcome of that submission is that through 
Christ the Spirit of God is voiced. Each one 
of us has inherited Manhood-Spirit as he has 
inherited Principle relating to environment. 
Just as a slow appreciation of Man-Principle 
is called out by the necessities of environment, 
so it is with the divine conception that is to 
follow. It would be just as true to say that the 
chrysalis of the caterpillar had fallen in 
relation to the butterfly to come, as it would 
be to speak of man's fall. Man has simply 
remained in the chrysalis state ever since he 
first became conscious. That which corre- 
sponds to the butterfly remains yet to be born. 
His further birth is to become the likeness of 
God in self-conscious existence. 

It is good to realise that we have more than 
abstract life, and that we have direct connec- 
tion with the working Power-Wisdom that 
takes Its rise in 'Principle. The direct way 
is at the threshold of the mind through Sub- 
jective man, the Christ. Just as all individ- 
uals inherit the so-called fixed principle of 
numbers so all inherit the Omniscient Prin- 
ciple of Knowledge. The mind bears such a 



294 mind's silent partner 

living relationship with its Principle, that 
when it turns to its Origin, that Origin sym- 
pathetically responds and pours into personal 
existence its rich treasures of Knowledge, 
Health and Love. In our ordinary life, love 
is inspired to become active through the 
senses; we have had little but the objective 
world of personality to call forth love. 

When the mind turns to its Creator below 
the threshold, with a desire to know It, the 
sympathetic fulfilment is at hand to answer 
to it. Though Its coming be slow in time, let 
us remember that gestation also was slow be- 
fore one was born ; so, too, is the development 
of one's race-inheritance, and one's educa- 
tional life. It takes all the allotted days, 
three or four score years, to accomplish these. 
The cultivation of our Divine Inheritance is 
different, in that every day it strengthens the 
living quality of the mind, and increases one's 
vitality and power to do things on one's way 
towards transcendental accomplishment. 

We frequently take for our meditation "I 
am thy Life" as coming from within from 
Subjective Man, Mediator between Principle 
and self-conscious mentality. So we can im- 



THE KNOWLEDGE-PRINCIPLE 295 

agine It saying "I am thy Life, I brought thee 
forth, though as yet thou knowest Me not. I 
am thy Health, since I gave thee thy first 
Health. I prepared thy entire organism that 
thou mightest become self-conscious of Me, thy 
Father. Whatsoever of health thou hast ig- 
norantly squandered, I will restore to thee, 
but thou canst only have it by thine own stead- 
fastness in invoking Me, thy Spirit of Health. 
"I am thy Healing Power. While as yet 
thou hast known not of Me, still I am That 
which heals all thy wounds, though unrecog- 
nised by thee. I come to thy rescue in so far 
as there is inducement in the office of thy mind 
that I may enter. There is a certain involun- 
tariness that, in thy helplessness, admits me. 
So long as this involuntariness lasts it belongs 
to thy organisation and I will heal thee of thy 
diseases for the time being. The only way in 
which spiritual self -consciousness may come to 
thee, that thou mayest live and be perennially 
well, is that opened by thy desire and co- 
operation with Me. Place thy mind in rela- 
tion with Me through thy desire and the words 
I have given unto thee. So doing, I will heal 
thee and give thee perpetual self-conscious- 



296 mind's silent partner 

ness of Me, with control of thy environment. 

I am thy Creative Spirit of Knowledge 
within thee. 

I will never leave thee nor forsake thee as 
thy Life. 

I will never leave thee nor forsake thee as 
thy Health. 

I will never leave thee nor forsake thee as 
thy Healing Power. 

Learn of Me and Live." 



"THOU MY INDWELLING CHRIST ART LOVE 
SUPREME WITHIN ME" 



The indwelling Christ is the potentiality 
which, on coming to fruitage in the self -con- 
sciousness of the mind, becomes a likeness of 
God in the flesh, the expressed potentiality of 
Divine Manhood. We have acknowledged in 
our meditation that this indwelling Christ is 
Love Supreme within. This should inspire a 
desire to feel the indwelling Presence, and 
also quicken us, just so far as it is revealed, 
to follow the way that brings this Love to 
birth into our personal consciousness. This 



THOU MY INDWELLING CHRIST 297 

way was revealed by the Master who brought 
to fruitage the potentiality within Him dur- 
ing the thirty years He lived before entering 
upon His Teaching. 

There has been confusion in the religious 
world as to the interpretation of the Master's 
teaching, as there has been no discrimination 
between the spiritual and the psychical orders 
of what he taught. 

The second order may be illustrated by the 
verses: — " Judge not that ye be not judged, 
for with what judgment ye judge ye shall be 
judged ; with what measure ye mete it shall be 
measured to you again. " Some have inter- 
preted this as depicting God's attitude towards 
the human being. This interpretation leads 
one, in spite of all teaching regarding the 
nature of God, to the belief that He is vindic- 
tive. It was however a teaching of psychol- 
ogy, not of God, and represents what takes 
place whilst one struggles to live without a 
knowledge of God, and without acting upon 
the potentiality within we call Christ. 

Now there are two orders of emotion, the 
first being the psychological emotion arising 
in movements of soul-feeling within, the race 



298 mind's silent partner 

emotional experiences that all have inherited 
together with the order of feeling which we 
ourselves in likeness of the race, have called 
forth from within. The other order takes its 
rise in movements of the Knowledge-con- 
sciousness within, called forth by the mind's 
desire to know the Creative Spirit. This 
order of emotion consists of movements of 
mind with the Divine Source as its Subject 
towards the development of the potentiality 
of Divine Manhood. 

"Thou my indwelling Christ art Love 
Supreme within me." When this indwelling 
spirit comes into the self -consciousness of the 
mind, a state of feeling is engendered that is 
representative of the highest Love that can be 
attained, an infinite, deathless Spirit of Love 
that is just as much Knowledge, Wisdom, 
Health and Eighteousness as it is Love. 

This transcendent Love given by the Spirit 
of Knowledge reveals the objective world in a 
new light. This Love rends the veil between 
the Christ-Love within and the blossoming of 
It into personal experience between the Divine 
Love and the human love. 

Turning again to the psychological attitude 



THOU MY INDWELLING CHRIST 299 

set forth by Jesus in this same chapter, it is 
made clear that He had been through the ex- 
periences of soul-life without God in His self- 
consciousness, and had discovered the truth 
that He put into the words: " Judge not that 
ye be not judged.' ' 

According to the mind's judgment, feeling 
is engendered, be that judgment righteous or 
unrighteous. Therefore one gets all the bene- 
fit, or the opposite, of one's judgment, and 
each individual is responsible for bringing 
forth feeling that is to take up residence in his 
consciousness. This stored emotion is ex- 
pressed in mental and bodily terms also, work- 
ing out perhaps in ill-health, disappointment 
or failure. 

To know the Spirit of Knowledge while 
looking upon the world of sense would ensure 
judgment according to that Spirit and could 
not result in untoward feeling. Just exactly 
will that measure that you mete to another be 
recorded in the mind's offices for store and for 
incarnation, independently of whether the 
judgment be true or false as to fact. We 
alone are responsible for our judgments, and 
their consequences in our personal life. If we 



300 mind's silent partner 

keep our grounds of judgment in the realm of 
Knowledge, Love and Faith, we shall not only 
be saved from false judgment, shall not only 
get the beam out of our own eye, but we shall 
get the mote out of the eye of the other, the 
beam being judgment according to appear- 
ance. Do not imagine that the Spirit of 
Knowledge cancels the normal pleasures and 
knowledge of sense; It simply illuminates 
them and makes them worth while. 

How can you love God when you do not love 
your neighbour, since God is the source of all 
Love ? If you do not love your neighbour, you 
have no recourse but to acquire love of God, 
then approach your neighbour with It. "While 
we are coming to know Love, let trust in God 
suspend condemnatory judgment, and thus 
avoid adding to the store of condemnation in 
the mind's citadel. Until the mind falls in 
love with the Spirit of Knowledge, so that it 
stays by that Spirit involuntarily during any 
emotional transaction, it has not learned the 
Spirit of God — Love, with which to approach 
the neighbour and love him. 

Do you not know how states of mind affect 
the minds of those about you? If we know 



THOU MY INDWELLING CHRIST 301 

how to abide in the Spirit of Knowledge, our 
feeling will call out similar feeling in the 
neighbour through sympathy in the conscious- 
ness of one and the other. It is also a sure 
remedy to protect us from temptation, and 
from another's false judgment of us. 

"He that dwelleth in the secret realm of the 
Most High shall abide under the protection of 
the Spirit of Knowledge/ ' 

The emotional state engendered by this 
paraphrase used as a meditation will protect 
us so long as we continue to abide ; it will be 
a protecting sentinel in the record within 
against untoward allurement. Our primary 
need is to get the beam out of our own eye by 
going into meditation and getting the mind 
polarised on the Spirit of Truth within. The 
negative sympathy between one and his neigh- 
bour, when at loggerheads, will thus pass 
away. As the beam comes out of one's own 
eye, the sympathy existing between one's own 
Divine Nature, and that of the neighbour, will 
remove the mote from the other's eye. 

The consensus of all Divine emotion is 
Love. Now, you wish to heal your neighbour 
or yourself of some negative state. Just think 



302 mind's silent partner 

what Love would have, what state Love would 
bring about. Suppose, just to name a nega- 
tive emotion, the spirit of condemnation is 
rife in yourself or the neighbour you wish to 
heal. Go into the Silence with the Most High 
holding words something like these: — 

"Love, Divine Love, will have no condemna- 
tion.' ' Do not say it yourself in the human 
sense, but as if Christ within were speaking 
the gospel into your consciousness, clearing 
the atmosphere of the soul dimension. 

"Divine Love will have no condemnation, 
Divine Love will have no jealousy, Divine 
Love will have no envy." Mention whatever 
emotion you wish to heal; abide several 
moments in this vital Silence, then let the 
meditation be : 

"Divine Love will have none of it, Divine 
Love will have none of it." Abide several 
minutes in this order of Silence, repeating the 
words over and over, envisioning them in 
your feeling. Then use the following : — 

"Let the Spirit of Divine Knowledge Love 
within me come, let the will of the Divine 
Knowledge-Love within me be done." 

Divine Love comes into the mind as Wis- 



THOU MY INDWELLING CHRIST 303 

dom, wise judgment, reconstituted feeling, 
until, instead of the stress and misery of ill- 
ness, the whole consciousness will be redeemed 
for the time, for Divine Knowledge-Love can 
have no vagaries of consciousness in Its King- 
dom. 

Sit with the words and experience a rising 
of your own consciousness until it dwells in 
the secret realm of the Most High. It is easy 
to see how Divine Love would have none of 
the states of consciousness born simply from 
premises of human origin and existence. 

Divine Love teaches us day by day as the 
mind rises out of these conditions. The 
Knowledge-Spirit within could not have ig- 
norance. Divine Health and Divine Love 
would not have illness, whether the illness be 
of the emotional realm only, or is extended 
into the bodily metabolism ; whether purely in 
the soul, or experienced in the soul's expres- 
sion — the body. 

" Divine Love will have none of it." 

The true way of life is to invite Divine Love 
into the consciousness, day by day, in words 
given for that purpose. You learn to obtain 
a wonderful peace from such meditation; the 



304 mind's silent partner 

Spirit of Knowledge does not act forcefully, 
but gives peace and rest under the illumina- 
tion of the Christ-words as they are repeated. 
Abiding in them, the Christ within will 
continue the activities set up by the medita- 
tion of the moment. 

Let us now get in the mind the image of the 
Christ-Spirit, called above the threshold into 
the mind's offices by the words of our medita- 
tion, leaving, as He retires into subjectivity, 
His abiding benediction in the words — Peace, 
Peace, Omniscient Vital Peace. "My Peace 
I leave with you, My Peace I give unto you; 
not as the world giveth give I unto you. Let 
not your heart be troubled, let it be unafraid." 

"O Christ Omniscient within me, regener- 
ate my desires, memories, and sympathies, 
back to the third and fourth generation, into 
Knowledge, Faith, and Love." 

Experimental science has found that of the 
two hemispheres of the cerebral brain but one 
hemisphere is used in carrying on the mind's 
affairs, that is man's self-conscious education 
in mental and emotional experience. 

Although physiologically as vital as is its 
working mate, the other hemisphere remains 



THOU, MY INDWELLING CHRIST 



305 



in full living activity yet is forever idle, play- 
ing no part in the mental commerce of con- 
sciousness above, or soul subjectivity below, 
the threshold of mental life, as if waiting in 
vital readiness for working orders yet to come. 
Experimental science tells us also that in 
right handed persons the left hemisphere is 
the active one, while in left handed persons 
the right hemisphere is the active one, that 
the hand that is used first not only determines 
the dominant hand, but also determines which 
of the two halves of the brain is to be the work- 
ing hemisphere: that the brain area for self- 
conscious activity, is like a house swept and 
garnished, ready for tenency, a tabula rasa 
for the individual mind's use in acquiring 
self-conscious education and experience. 

Since the idle hemisphere does not take on 
the functions of its mate in case of injury, the 
scientists have been puzzled to find cause for 
its existence. 

It seems quite plain that Omniscient Man- 
hood-Principle, through its Generic office of 
activity, in creating Its Likeness — the Mind, 
to mirror it in the self-conscious state, when 
providing an instrument and office of record 



306 mind's silent partner 

for man's kindergarten and objective state 
of education, would also provide a like instru- 
ment for the mind's birth and education from 
its subjective Source, the Creative Spirit 
Within, upon which it depends for existence 
and Creative Knowledge. In other words, 
Instinctive man on his way to Divine self -con- 
sciousness has evidently provided this race 
unused hemisphere for the gestation and rec- 
ord of Pneumatological Feeling which is to 
be born by the mind's contact with its Omnis- 
cient Principle through the germinating 
Word-Seeds of their Infinite Source, when 
brooded over by the mind in meditative 
prayer. 

Just as the mind, now knowing only of soul- 
life, dominates or is dominated by the forceful 
emotion of the mind's conscious union in self- 
contact with the world of objects, so in the 
course of its regeneration it will dominate or 
be dominated by the peaceful, knowledgeful 
emotion of the mind's conscious union in self- 
consciousness of the Source of All-Knowing. 

Let the Kingdom of Knowledge within me 
come, Let the Will of the Infinite Spirit of 
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